Links

Barnes & Noble

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu

This is the website for my lovely home in Sag Harbor, which is available for rent during the summer and sometimes year-round

Check out this website for dynamite CD-sized peace symbol magnets for your car or 'fridge! Made by a friend in Sag Harbor.

My friend Gabriele Raacke illustrated my book "Yellow Dog Dreaming". I love her reverse paintings on glass and have several in my house.

My friends Andrew Bailey and Connie Baxter have built this fantastic B and B near Sedona - but is their unique life philosophy, connections to indigenous peoples and life-long effort to make the world a better place that makes their B and B worth a visit. If you can't make it there, at least check out the website!

Tostan is an organization working in Senegal and other African countries to bring human rights education to rural and urban people.

Shulamith Koenig founded the organization known as the People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE). In 2005, I compiled and edited THE PEOPLE'S REPORT (see THE BOOKS page). Learn more about international human rights education at this link.

Kathy Eldon is an old friend from Kenya who now lives in Los Angeles. Her son Dan, who grew up in Kenya, became a photojournalist and was stoned to death in Somalia at the age of 22. Using her son's death as an inspiration, Kathy and her daughter Amy have created a marvelous foundation called Creative Visions. Check it out here.

Together with Kathy Eldon, Victoria Waldock, another Kenya friend of mine, produced a film called Dying to Tell The Story, about journalists who have died while covering war. Victoria has also founded and runs the Salt Lake City Film Center’s Africa Program, which screens films made by Africans. She is also on the Executive Board of the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA).

Carol Beckwith is another dear friend whose remarkable books on African culture have made her a renowned expert in the field. She is an amazing photographer and artist and has spent over thirty years visiting the most remote regions of Africa with her co-author Angela Fisher to document the changing face of African people and culture.

For several years, I have been teaching creative non-fiction at the former Friends World Program of Long Island University in Southampton. We have now moved to the LIU campus in Brooklyn, NY, and are known as Global College. I now run the Senior Thesis Seminar for the fourth year graduating students.