Nov 16, 2010
Note to self: Don’t use the dry cleaner next to the butcher. I was very excited to see my button down shirts coming back so clean and nicely pressed. This is particularly pleasing after the cloths cleaner at the house tore the collar off one of my favorite shirts...
Oct 12, 2010
On many days the sky in Kabul is full of small kites. The children here love flying kites. The reality here is that most children don’t have very many toys and there are only very rarely any playgrounds. So for many kids flying a kite is something that is...
Oct 8, 2010
Kabul is sunny and clear blue, except that is for the dense haze of dust and smog. Incredible that people’s lungs can take it. No wonder the average life span is 44. At night it is like driving through a fog on the Maine coast. And then every once in long while it...
Jul 15, 2010
Only 13.5% of US aid goes through Afghan Government – Call to clean up contracting system Lalit K Jha – May 21, 2010, Pajhwok News Agency, Afghanistan WASHINGTON (PAN): The Special Inspector-General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) stressed on...
Jul 10, 2010
National Public Radio, Morning edition, Report on National Solidarity Program Transcript: MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I’m Mary Louise Kelly, in for Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And I’m Renee...
