Currently in Istanbul, shortly on my way to Diyarbakir and the country’s southeast—the predominantly Kurdish region adjacent to the northern Iraq border that is so much in the news of late.
I have been researching here for the past couple weeks, so please excuse the lack of posting. Current events have taken me on [...]

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Back in Canada, going through my Guatemala research, and wondering why I must wait an entire week between the resolution of the Stanley Cup’s Conference Finals and its celebrated final round (featuring my predicted match-up, Ottawa v. Anaheim). Meaning there’s no game this Saturday.
One wonders at the connection between this desperate eagerness to watch playoff [...]

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Greetings from Guatemala City, where I am currently finishing up close to a month´s worth of research for the book. The city itself is worth some investigation despite the dire warnings of the guidebooks and the almost complete absence of any foreign tourists. The largest, most cosmopolitan city in Central America, it´s sprawling, chaotic, often [...]

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It’s been almost a month since I dismounted from the snowmobile and my hands are still numb. The persistent vibration from gripping the handlebars have given me arthritis. One must get back into the swing of things, however, and so here are four interesting postings elsewhere of note.
CHAD—Photographer and fellow traveller Don Weber, now based [...]

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Yesterday, George Bush completed his doughy pretzel of logic: as recently as early fall it was “we’re winning in Iraq”; then, in the wake of compelling election results & the findings of his own Iraq commission he admits it’s time to listen & be open to alternative ideas; now, while confessing he’s ultimately responsible for [...]

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