Author Archives: jesse

This question, was the opener to the weekend of TEDxSF.  My new friend Tony, has embarked on this mission to photographically display why people do what they do.  I suspect this question does more than provide Tony with some great pictures, it also forces the subject to question for themselves, and alter course towards a [...]

I don’t often journal, but it’s always so much fun for me to read back through the occasional entries I’ve made over the past few years and recall those moments. This is an especially fond evening when I lost myself in Germany. I was fresh out of college with the whole world and the rest [...]

As I was preparing for the board meeting this week, I was looking over inventory reports, sales reports, financials, etc and I realized that it was one year ago this week that we made our first really uncomfortable investment–our first shirts. An investment that set us on course to be unique among charitable organizations in [...]

I’m not sure why it’s so cool to drop the “g” in place of an “‘” but, yeah, so I tried fly fishin’ for the first time the other day and it was great fun!  I’m quite confident that my ungainly cast had nothing to do with the half-dozen fish I caught.  Indeed, one time [...]

What makes us decide that we’re too old to sleep out in our backyard?  When is that age anyhow?  The other day my friend from Kenya really wanted to go camping, and all I had to offer immediately was my backyard.  So we scrounged up all of the blankets pillows, and even a bamboo rug [...]

Yesterday, as we boarded our final leg to Addis, a young guy with a guitar was standing in line in front of me, so obviously I had to ask him if he played. As the conversation went on, I mentioned to him that we were in Ethiopia regarding microfinance at which point he told me [...]