Yesterday I returned to Herat. I haven’t been here in four years. I’m staying in the guesthouse where I lived when I first moved here in 2006. I was met at the door by the same house manager and cook who took care of me when I first landed. Two of the current house occupants [...]
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Coming Home to Herat: You have to feel it
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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Kabul Day 3: What’s really scaring me
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
I had lunch with an old friend today. Scott was one of the very first people I met in Afghanistan and during the six months I lived in Kabul we became close. Close enough that when I inscribed his book today I wrote: For Scott, who I like too much to have put in my [...]
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Revisiting Afghanistan: Day One
Friday, April 27th, 2012
As I type this I’m sitting in a quiet, almost entirely beige room in a guesthouse in Kabul. The muezzin just began the afternoon call to prayer. The sounds is soothing and familiar. Everything about Kabul feels more familiar than I had feared. People had told me the city had changed so much in the [...]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Earlier this year Zen Under Fire was published. It’s the story of the two years I spent in Afghanistan – the people I met there, the lessons they taught me. Four and a half years since I was last in Afghanistan, I have the chance to return. I’ve been given the opportunity to combine three [...]
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Where in the world am I?
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Back in January, someone asked me: Do you have any plans to go back into the field? And my honest answer was: Yes, actually I do. Or more accurately, I have a won’t-go-away, ache-in-my-belly desire for it. What I need is a plan. Well. Soon after writing that post I started to see the dots that connected [...]
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A few good things (my belated weekly links round-up)
Monday, April 16th, 2012
As I write this post, a battle is raging in Kabul. The Taleban have apparently launched their infamous Spring Offensive in the city. I’ve been checking in on friends via Twitter and Facebook all day. My favorite updates came from a friend who was stuck in her office with a cat and a litter of [...]
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A few good things (my weekly round-up of links from across the interwebs)
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
I started out calling these posts ‘A few good things’ And then I realised the links I’m drawn to, the things I want to share, are often a little bit intense (see today’s poem). They might not seem like ‘good things’ to everyone else. But I do believe they are good. They may not be [...]
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A few good things (my weekly round up from across the interweb)
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Today my book Zen Under Fire is officially launched in to the world. Well, mostly it is being launched into New Zealand – but thanks to the magic of the internet you can order it from wherever you are (and have it delivered to most places). Zen Under Fire is a book about my experiences [...]
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A few good things (my weekly round up from across the interwebs)
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
My favorite link this week is from a journalist writing about the solace she finds in food while working far from home, in Afghanistan. “As I stood in the morning light in my grimy Kabul kitchen, the hot coffee made me feel almost at home,” she writes, evoking my own memories of the very same [...]
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
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