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if you look at the “career path” of my 20s, you might say that it’s zig-zagged somewhat. people tend to look at me quizzically when i give them the run-down: history undergrad to litigation/communication consulting to law to pre-vet to public health grad school to hospital admin to global public health/development work. and, […]

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Again, another book not about Africa. A good one, though.
I’ve never read any Ian McEwan books before. A synopsis of his book First Love, Last Rites: “Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer […]

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they don’t eat plantains or bananas, but they sound like monkeys and they fly. so, what are they? they’re monkey-birds! or at least that’s what phil & i call them. no kidding – they’re birds that sound like monkeys…one guidebook even says: “the eastern grey plantain-eater makes a chimplike hooting that […]

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today is the first time i’ve ever checked out the site statistics for andersonbowen.com. picked a good day to start. yesterday i posted here about some site updates, and paige sent a mass email with her updated contact information. if you’re reading this and didn’t get that email, how did you ever stumble across […]

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updates! there are a couple new photo sets up on andersonbowen. you can click photo or africa on the links at the right of the blog. paige took pictures at a printmaking workshop we attended with local artist fred mutebi. he spent a year in tennessee as a fulbright scholar and has an amazing portfolio. […]

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hands down one of the hardest things to leave behind when moving to africa was coaching syzygy. here’s a team that models everything i ever wanted in a team, a team that included me in its successes and its failures as one of its own. so, why did i choose to walk away […]

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