by phil | Apr 15, 2021 | Stories
Hey there. It’s been nine months since I last posted here. It feels like years have gone by, though. Given recent events, pandemic, newborn, toddler-now-preschooler, collapsed lung, I am just happy I remembered to renew the domain name. When I last wrote, we...
by phil | Jul 21, 2020 | Stories
Just when I think I can get off my regimen of valium and bush weed, 2020 drags me back in. When I last posted, we had preemptively shut down the restaurant and hotel and a group of us moved in with essential provisions. Ah, the halcyon days of early voluntary...
by phil | Apr 18, 2020 | Stories
fort architecture Some blog posts will tell you in advance how much time it will take you to read them. I am going to offer a different metric that relates to how much this post will depress you. At the moment, it sits squarely in the middle between “ca va...
by phil | Dec 17, 2019 | thoughts
In my last post, I was in South Africa. I was having skin cancer removed from my forehead and we were preparing to move our hotel and restaurant in Bamako. That was 6 months ago. July and August were difficult months. The new landlord of what is now the old sleeping...
by phil | Mar 14, 2019 | Stories
Background: we have a hotel/bar/restaurant in Bamako. We were evicted 6 months ago. A few weeks ago I was standing in the courtyard of a villa. There was an adolescent baobab tree a few meters away from an empty swimming pool. I started having a vision. The baobab at...
