What a week! Sunday brought the terrible news of the loss of Julius, one of my kids in Uganda. (Selah.) Then came the grand news that Dorah (age 20, one of my oldest) impressed the embassy and was issued a scholar's visa to come to San Diego for the summer institute where she is a…
I learned about the impending capture of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, “Boston Bombing Suspect 2,” as my mother described the event to me on the telephone. “He is in a boat stored in the backyard of a home just three houses down from Bob’s house,” she said. …
“Why are you running up the stairs only to run back down again?” A little boy, maybe four-years-old, just asked me this during my daily workout in the park. Part of my routine is to run up and down the steps at the front of…
I just finished my daily wog (half walk, half jog) through the park. On the homestretch, as I jogged past a garden springing fresh with colorful blossoms, a little girl,…
Time to tell my journal about things that make me happy. Today's the 14th of the month, and here are 14 things that push my gratitude button. (Sappy, I know,…
The other day, as I emerged from my apartment building—my home-away-from-home here in San Diego—I sighed at the sight and sounds of the ongoing road construction. The major street in…
Nathaniel is the Dammeyer Fellow in Global Education Leadership at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences, and a PhD student in Leadership Studies. He holds a Master's Degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University where he was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, and winner of the 2010 Harvard HDP Marshal Award. He is the founder of www.aidchild.org, and now divides his time between San Diego and Uganda, East Africa. Prior to his move to Uganda in 2000, Nathaniel was Deputy Director of the Office of the Governor of Arizona.
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