April 18

Comic book editor Marie Javins circumscribes the planet without airplanes — and lives to write about it; US-Palestine Youth Solidarity activist Ora Wise teaches kids in refuge camps how to tell their own stories; and Jeff Stark finds the Broken Heart on the Mississippi River.

Jeff Stark

I told a story about searching for a canoe in Red Wing and Lake City, Minnesota. It stars a drunk kid, a millionaire, and the mighty Mississippi. There is a podcast of the story here. The photo below is by Tod Seelie.

Marie Javins

Comic book editor Marie Javins set out to travel around the world without airplanes. She wrote about the overland passage from Cape Town to Cairo on Marie’s World Tour and in her book Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik. She maintains an extensive blog.