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Learning Dog Tricks Made Me a Calmer Person
While practicing the dog trick, Leave It, with my seven-year old pup, I unexpectedly learned to regulate my own impulsive reactions and...
czikmund
May 21, 20221 min read
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Software program for my twenty-year-old self
Read the poem here.
czikmund
Jul 11, 20211 min read
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Seeing is Believing
For one day out of the year, Incans from all four corners of Peru journey to the Moray in Sacred Valley and pay homage to Mother Earth,...
czikmund
Sep 28, 201910 min read
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Jamestown
Before last week, I had never been to an insane asylum. Maybe I still haven’t been to one. Much has changed since my grandfather was...
czikmund
Jun 3, 20197 min read
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Camp Nyota 2018 and The Maasai
On the first day of Camp Nyota, our awareness is high. We want to learn everything we can about the Maasai people in Tanzania from our...
czikmund
Dec 2, 20186 min read
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Fleetwood Mac 2018 Tour – San Jose
Unedited Concert Review If there was any doubt Fleetwood Mac could pull off another great concert tour without their original lead...
czikmund
Nov 24, 20185 min read
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Big Five, Ugly Five, Fab Five, and … Cute Five
Ten minutes after we’re met by our driver, he pulls the jeep over to show us a mother and baby elephant feasting on an acacia tree....
czikmund
Oct 20, 20189 min read
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The Great Wildebeest Meander
Our lives are in danger every time we step out of our tent past 6 pm without an Askari, Maasai escort. The unassuming protector wears a...
czikmund
Oct 13, 20187 min read
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Lions in Spring Part 2: The Chase
We happened upon another pride not related to the Rekero Brothers or the Minoka Ladies. Altogether four prides rule the more than forty...
czikmund
Oct 7, 20182 min read
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Lions in Spring
The story of Naboisho Camp’s lions begins long before this Spring when these mating videos were taken. Camp Naboisho’s managers, Andrea...
czikmund
Oct 6, 20182 min read
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I Kissed a Boy (Giraffe) and I Liked It
Not all Giraffes are good kissers. Edd, the large male and sire to any offspring born at Nairobi’s Giraffe Center, uses a lot of tongue....
czikmund
Oct 2, 20185 min read
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Nudged by a Mountain Gorilla, Stared Down by a Golden Monkey
He’s with the Amahoro Gorilla Family and he lives in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. As a juvenile, he’s full of fun and games. This I...
czikmund
Sep 30, 20186 min read
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The fighting is over. Nothing but the tears remain.
As the Rwandan jazz singer belts out the American classic “Stand by Me” to the twenty or so business people and tourists sipping...
czikmund
Sep 27, 20185 min read
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Bugs, Bacteria, and Contagious Diseases
Leo (our chow mix) knows something is up. The suitcases are out. He doesn’t care that we’re leaving. He wants to leave in the car too....
czikmund
Sep 23, 20183 min read
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Three Weeks ’til Africa
It’s Labor Day and we’ve been on our computers all day. Dave is taking a break from mapping our twenty-one-day journey in Eastern Africa...
czikmund
Sep 3, 20184 min read
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Sep 3, 20180 min read
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