Gideon at 1 month
Gideon Arthur is officially one month old today! He came for a visit yesterday. We’ve been gone for ten days so I haven’t seen him in two weeks. When last I saw him, he was just barely opening his eyes to peek at the world, far more content to keep them closed, [...]

[November 17, 2009] (See the late development down a bit)   It’s pretty common these days for most friends to greet me with “So, how are you feeling?”  Most of my friends are aware I had a heart attack one year ago this week. For the past 5 months or so, my answer has been pretty [...]

……people in Tunisia do not have superstitions about pictures taking away their souls—yessssss!
My morning started out in Le Kef, Tunisia. The scene? Me running up and down three flights of stairs in a hotel looking for an empty bathroom—-it took me about 40 minutes to find one and lots of times up and down the [...]

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It’s been a good day in Morocco when…
[Shannon and Alec posted this update on their Facebook page-- they are in North Africa for 3 weeks.]

you drive over what seems like the rocky mountains (can’t believe there is so much snow in North Africa), into wildflower covered fields, followed by a Moroccan grand canyon and then [...]

Alec and I have had several instances of outrageous laughter since being in Morocco…it’s been great. How interesting to travel internationally with a sibling, I highly recommend it if you want to be transported back to early childhood (I’m 12, Alec is 8). =) Maybe for some that’s not good, but for us it’s pretty [...]

The Black Market II: Alec & Shannon in real life (from Facebook)
Shannon and Alec leave Thursday for three weeks of photography in North Africa building a new archive of digital photos and video for use by various non-profits and NGO reps serving peoples of the region. Check out this video he made today promoting his [...]