Creating a peaceful environment before national elections in 2010, and a referendum on southern independence set for 2011 under the peace deal, should be a priority for Sudanese authorities and the world, he said.

those of you have read either my blog or my book know that me and flying do not get along. it just seems a bit much. how high? how fast? how far? come on.
the problem is, of course, if you really like other places then planes get you farther faster, [...]

Calvin White, Salmon Arm: You have had so much experience with dying. And your book and blog are all about truly living. What would you say to a young person — say someone between 18 and 30 — if they genuinely wanted to better understand what it means to truly live, and what it means to die?

Last night, I was in Ottawa, talking at its author’s festival (review here).  I spoke with Peter Pigott, author of the book, Canada in Sudan.  I spent my train ride thinking what I was going to as we blurred by early buds on trees and geese in straw strewn fields.
Months ago, I had wondered about [...]

Six Months in Sudan
Dr. James Maskalyk

the end.
I decided that this book should start at the end. It is the place I am trying most to understand.
This is it. I am standing in a field watching sparks from a huge bonfire float so high on hot drafts of air that they become stars. It is autumn [...]

into the world, this last sunday,  at Toronto’s Gladstone hotel.
i arrived  with no notes, and no expectations.  my parents were there early, as were some of my closest friends.  as it drew nearer to 5, the room filled.  when i started speaking, 10 minutes later, there was only standing room.  soon people were being turned [...]

THE HAGUE (AFP) – The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague started hearing a dispute Saturday between north and south Sudan over the contested oil-rich Abyei region at the heart of a fragile peace pact.
“Everybody in Sudan has a vested interest in the outcome of this arbitration,” Riek Machar Teny, deputy chairman of [...]

Ha.  Been fooled about that before.
The other night, I was working overnight in the emergency room.  It was about 4 in the morning, maybe 5, the point in the night where your body wants most desperately to be lying down.  The department was quite busy, and from the bottom of the stack of people waiting, [...]