November 2021

I recently listened to a podcast that mentioned the effect of colonialism on African culture. Colonial Christian missionaries would arrive in an African village and immediately open a school. In the missionary school children would begin to learn about Christian European culture at a young age. The children lived in the midst of African village […]

The first half of my life so far was spent in the vicinity of a mid-size midwestern industrial town of about 40,000, not far from a major metropolis. Most of the second half has been in a remote tiny town of about 2000 on the western prairie. I have been considering moving closer to grandchildren