… clack-clack, and something that never was before comes into being …

     F. Buechner


View of the White Nile out the window of the DC-3


A Three for a taxi • From yesterday’s ride-along in the 1945 Douglas DC-3 to pick up patients in Yambio. As an occasional passenger and frequent admirer, I can only confirm what each pilot has told me: This might be the best aircraft ever made. Never turn down a chance to fly in the Gooney Bird


Walking with


OSHA-certified signage • These little M7s have pulled their weight. There’s four of them that have sterilized the instruments for over 1200 cleft lip repairs in South Sudan alone.



September (s)newsletter!


Nashville is taller than I remembered her


These lands are bad


The Moon illusion, Rushmore edition. In the second photo, I’m standing about a football field’s length closer to the monument. Point for the relative size hypothesis.