We are back in America. At one point, we thought we might stay in Kenya through December, but the baby brought us back to America. We are so glad to be here. An attempt to sum up the year would be a melodramatic failure. But before I left I said I had three goals: (1) …
As I said previously, I spent a good bit of time figuring out what Kenyans found funny and realizing it wasn’t me. You can read more about that in previous posts. So I had to put together a new set and, just as importantly, find a new style. For example, I wrote a joke about how …
As you head into the weekend, I hope you’ll check out Episode 5 of Where I’m Not. A bit more about the podcast. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and generally involves a light-hearted discussion about reasons Kenya is bothering me or America is bothering Doug. Mostly, those conversations are just meant to highlight …
Comics here, by and large, don’t know the name “Jerry Seinfied” (but maybe it sounds familiar). You can imagine, then, that greats like Brian Regan and Mitch Hedberg don’t ring any bell at all. Most have heard of Chris Rock and Steve Harvey, some of Russell Peters. But, in essence, they describe these comics as …
Episode 4 of Where I’m Not is posted. I almost didn’t post this episode because my segment does not put me in good light. It’s a hard balance — understanding that so many people around you have dire needs, but also growing tired of being seen as a quick fix. I’m not sure if I …
You may remember a story I shared a couple months ago about a brave 12-year old girl that IJM represented. An edited version of the story was included in a Kenyan publication called Kweli Magazine. If you’d like to see the original story, you can read it here: The Story of a Little Girl.
As I’ve already gotten to share with some of you, the new set I wrote for a Kenyan audience went well; and I look forward to telling the story of how it all aired on [inter]national television! In the meantime, though, I still want to document the process of getting together that set — in …
Episode 3 of Where I’m Not is also posted. In this Episode, I convince Doug to back off kindergarten graduations, but generally agree that there should be no pomp and circumstance until high school. But I mean c’mon — this is adorable: I talk about struggling to support my wife during her pregnancy while being …
Some of you may have noticed that Episode 2 of Where I’m Not was already up when we released Episode 1. Please feel free to check out the Episode now if you haven’t previously. In this episode, I talk more seriously about my fear of dying on the roads here. For more information, you can …
Doug Connolly and I are pleased to announce the release of our podcast: Where I’m Not. The podcast is still a work in progress, but, as the title implies, that’s okay. Right now, the show mostly involves Doug and me talking about why we wish we were somewhere else (me, not in Africa; Doug, not …