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Coming of Age in a Maasai Boma

Our Dalton turned 16 last week. Like some of his former birthdays, this one could have been given short shrift, being squished, as it is, between Christmas, our wedding anniversary, and New Year’s. But this was The Big 1-6, and for months Dalton had been counting down the days. So we promised we’d really mark [...]

Sweet Hours of Prayer

When Adrienne Zenzo prays, it’s a full body experience. Eyes clamped shut beneath brows gathered like small drifts of chocolate mousse; ample features rustling-spreading-contracting like cocoa-colored suede being fitted  around bones hardly discernible; lips as regal and rouged as Nefertiti; her monologue’s syllables peaking and lulling like a row boat on rough water sending a [...]

All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day

One family, we dwell in Him; One church above, beneath; Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death. One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. —Charles Wesley (1701-1778) November 1st, 2007, Munich, Germany. Slowly, aimlessly, [...]

La Leche à la Hong Kong

No one warned me that we’d be hiking all day long, trekking under full blown summer sun on Lantau island, running low on water, dehydrated, sluggish, in need of shade and a toilet. Had I known all this beforehand, of course I would have carried several water bottles for myself and several clothes changes and [...]

This is the Tale of Two Parkers.

This is also, by extension, the tale of two friends, Renée and Melissa, and of two families, the Halls and the Bradfords, and of two freak events that yanked all of the above onto two different but similar, unforeseen and shadowy trajectories. The tale tells how such yanking might dislocate some joints, but how it [...]

The Valley of Death

Editors note: We are thrilled to introduce Melissa Dalton Bradford as a new contributor to the Segullah blog. You may recognize her name from several poems featured in the Segullah literary magazine; Melissa’s grace, beauty and wisdom and an incredible asset to our community. I’m sitting in a pediatrician’s examination room.  We’ve been living in [...]

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