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ACCRA, Ghana – I’m sitting with Ghana’s Queen of Evening Radio and feeling pretty good about it. It took me a...

ACCRA, Ghana – He remembers the day he walked out of Accra’s international airport and into a crush of humanit...

ACCRA, Ghana – The soil is fertile, the climate ideal. But, somehow, this west African nation of 32 million ca...

ACCRA, Ghana – As an American, you can’t visit Ghana without thinking about slavery because a significant perc...

WUTE, Ghana – The old man sits on the porch of a village house that once belonged to his mother. In three days...

ACCRA, Ghana – I walk out of the airport and into the city where, like many developing world capitals, you ins...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia – I’m sitting in front of Vegen365Kitchen waiting for an 11 a.m. appointment with its...

I was invited to a cocktail party the other night at the home of a friend named Bob. He’s also a contractor wh...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia – In the U.S., we have two Dakotas, two Carolinas and a pair of Virginias. Any issues...

DEIR EL GHAZAL, Lebanon – Amid a collapsed banking system, corrupt and ineffective government and resulting na...

TIRANA, Albania – During the few nights I spent in this capital city I noticed the cafes and bars in my neighb...

KRUJE, Albania – For the past several years I’ve served as a judge for a national service organization that aw...

TIRANA, Albania – To truly appreciate and understand freedom you either had to have fought for it or lived und...

TIRANA, Albania – I’m eating breakfast at the City Hotel Tirana. A plain omelet, chunk of feta cheese, tasty l...

TIRANA, Albania – In my 17th summer, I was preparing for my final year of high school and thinking about which...

TIRANA, Albania – Last night, the White Sox beat the Yankees in a 9-8 thriller at the Dyersville, Iowa ballfie...

TIRANA, Albania – Do you have any idea how long I’ve waited to type that dateline? I’ll tell you....

MAUMEE - Ohio -- When I arrived at the Lucas County [Ohio] Recreation Center on Feb. 17 at the pre-appointed t...

PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica  – I first spot him when we are stuck in evening traffic on one of the main commercial s...

What! Another chili recipe? And you’re going to tell us it’s the best ever, right?
I’ll let you decide the l...