We McLaughlins and Faders were of course excited for John when he was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer for his international medicine i...

March has come, and two McCropder homes are for sale. With this come thoughts of moving, and with this comes rising excitement. And with thi...

More and more, I'm learning that international aid and its ramifications are quite complicated issues, and I'm far from a nihilist o...

One of the more frequent questions I am asked when people find out I am moving to Kenya concerns raising my children there. Far from being ...

This series of photographs of "Signs of Africa" posted on the BBC is awesome. Who wouldn't want to move there?

Rick Donlan, an innovative doc among the Memphis indigent, has a talk that he titles "From the 'Hood to the Hindu Kush", which...

I don't think that I'll try to provide a direct answer to the questions from Paul Theroux , as posted below. Instead just a couple s...

A friend lent us Paul Theroux's African travel tale Dark Star Safari , and it has given me enough to think about that it likely bears s...

We are pleased to introduce you to the newest member of the "McCropders" -- Micah John Cropsey, born on Christmas Day 2008. He was...

Years ago, after a couple summers in Eastern Europe, where German is a useful trade language, I was trying to learn some Deutsch, and had a ...