Continuations

One of the things we have been emphasizing in homeschooling our children is the importance of giving back. So I am incredibly thrilled that our daughter has launched a Crowdrise fundraiser to support girls at schools in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Lewa was one of the places we visited on our trip to Africa earlier this year and we spent a day visiting one of the schools. The funds will help with various initiatives at the school aimed at keeping girls in school. At present the number of gi...

We just got back from nearly three weeks in Africa spent mostly in Kenya and a bit in Tanzania. I have tons of great photos of animals and nature which I may eventually post elsewhere but for Continuations I figured I would share some of my impressions. William Gibson once wrote that “the future is already here – it is just not very evenly distributed.” That quote stuck in my mind as we experienced an enormous gradient between the bustling city of Nairobi (with 4 million or so inhabitants) an...

In March we will be going to Africa for a safari. We are all really excited about it. And of course as part of homeschooling we have been spending time preparing for the trip and learning about the countries we will visit (Kenya and Tanzania). In doing so I realized that I learned pretty much next to nothing about Africa either in school or in college. The only thing was a bit about Egypt and the pyramids and then a few words about the slave trade. So it has been exciting to dig in. Given the...