The COVID Pandemic continues to rule. Omicron dethrones delta and is now the reigning monarch. While our country continues to grapple...

“How’re you doing, Mrs. Begay?” While volunteering during the second wave of the COVID pandemic at the Navajo Nation, I made my first...

2020, what I did during the year of the pandemic.

Today we celebrate the Winter Solstice and the rare great conjunction of the two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn of the solar system;...

Today we mourn the passing of our brother Wee and celebrate a life well-lived. Shortly after mid-night last night, I went to Rock Meadow...

Two years ago I posted in my blog this question: Should you still care about Ebola now that the outbreak is over? I received the author...

An unexpected day-off. I would rather run a clinic for Rohingya but it was not to be. Had I known that we had no clinic far ahead of...

The tides were low this morning, the ocean seemed a long way away. Many men and women were crouching over buckets of ocean water to dish...

I abandoned my run this morning because of a planned early start to the clinic but it turned out not to be. It has been difficult to have...

It rained last night and dawn brought in another bright and sunny day. There were white puffy clouds over the ocean but no signs of dark...

This morning we drove through the Kutupalong Camp so the new volunteers could have a look at the camp to see where the refugees are...

Another bright and sunny day and it was actually starting to be a scorcher. Patches of blue sky certainly were not harbinger of rain. So...

Dawn brought in a bright and sunny day but where I stayed, sunlight could not penetrate. The walls of the buildings were within a foot of...

Another bright and sunny day. This morning I looked for the homeless children but they had already moved on. A woman was sweeping the...

There was no rain today. The sun shone brightly this morning and it had risen by the time I ran to the beach. Choosing a secluded spot, I...

It rained during the night and the dirt roads to the main tarmac road turned into mud puddles. Rain clouds gathered ominously in the...

This morning I rose early to run on the beach. There were people playing soccer, a few runners and many walkers but the hazy sky hid the...

This was my last day at the camp! It was clearer this morning. In the corridor of the store-front leading to the beach in my run this...

I thought yesterday was my last time to the Obat clinic at Kutupalong Camp but at the last minute it seemed the three UK doctors decided...

It took us an hour and a half to get to Obat, riding in a van (an improvement over the bouncing Tom Tom) and walking through the...