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Transcarpathian Home for Disabled Children

LUND–Jennifer Lawrence, a nurse from Ohio whom I met on the SARA trip to Ukraine last summer, just sent me several CDs of her photos from the trip. This is one she took of me at work while visiting a home for mentally disabled children in the Carpathian mountains. The other is, more or less […]

Two Photos of Lena

The Children Of The Mangroves Short Film

Sharon’s Art and Purpose

Sharon Fiely on the Rio del Espino near the Pacific coast of El Salvador.–Andrew Tonn photo “God’s Love Shines” an original oil painting by Sharon Fiely–image courtesy of Sharon Fiely LUND — I first met Sharon Fiely about 4:30 in the morning at the Columbus, Ohio airport in 2007. I was lugging my normal burden […]

All You Need to Know

LUND–Of my trip to the US there is little to say. Its time had come and so I flew back, not to the Southwest of my childhood but, perhaps, to the place where I became a man, where my parents still live and to where most of those who had become my closest friends live […]

Moon Over Lund

LUND–The moon was huge and bright against the black limbs of trees and the fast moving clouds of February.

Snow Imps

LUND–My friends, convinced I had been possessed by some Nordic snow imp, wanted me back across the Atlantic. Though they professed to missing me a severe blizzard had begun right about the moment I was landing in Cleveland. For the next month of my stay the weather would alternate between more snow and those glittery, […]

Jiggity Jig

INDIANAPOLIS–The night before I left I had about the closest to a panic attack as I have ever had no matter what that %$#&^^%$%@##@ Kathy says happened before she found out my diaphram was paralyzed by a bad dose of Imodium that one night in Honduras. But this time I was leaving the woman I […]

Clubbin’

LUND–My life here has become rather like a chronic medical condition: it’s not going away, I have to treat it with a mixed therapy of exercise, proper diet and medicine and still I have my good days and my bad days. I’d been having some bad days lately: a mix of the dark winter, missing […]

Three Moments

#2: We went to IKEA to buy a new chair. It was named Franklin. When we came out it was dark and ABBA was playing on the radio. #3: I walked to pick the car up from the shop. Then I drove the Volvo home in the dark Swedish winter afternoon.