April 25, 2024

Supporting students in Mississippi

FROM DANIEL MILLENSON [Please contact Daniel directly at the email provided if you want the “wish list” of books he refers to] Dear Friends and Family, As many of you may know, I am currently serving as a 2009 Teach For America corps member in rural Mississippi, teaching 12th grade English and a class of […]

Odds & ends

Apologies for the lack of updates. A friend told me that while the Kenyan government held a ceremony in honor of the arrival of fiber optic cable, their party was premature and the much-anticipated cable is not yet in the country. This didn’t seem implausible given that accounting for things not actually present is something […]

Making new spaces “home”

Apologies in advance, since I already know this is going to be an off-beat post (in its honour I have added a new category: “Totally random stuff”), but I’ve had it for the day with reconstructing the way the UN Security Council got to refer Darfur to the ICC (Chapter 2), so I’m up for […]