For my independent film maker film festival debut, I was able to sneak a little video about Burundi's daredevil cargo bikers into Filmed By Bike, a Portland tradition dedicated to short films about... you guessed it, bikes.  Living in Burundi for 9 months in 2009, I got to watch crazy locals zoom down mountain slopes with more bananas then you'll ever eat in a lifetime piled on their rear rack - and now you can, too.

Experience with writing, photography, and design in an international context has led to my work appearing online and in print in support of international humanitarian and relief work.

An essay I wrote about the history of my home neighborhood of Kenilworth in Washington DC was recently included in the second edition of this well-regarded book highlighting the residential side of America's famous capital city.

In 2006 I wrote and published a booklet - Kenilworth: A DC Neighborhood By the Anacostia River - about the history of my neighborhood in Washington DC.  You can download an electronic version of this popular work here, and read a summary of my grant and community funded history project.

The text of a eulogy I wrote and delivered at my cousin, and best friend, Glen Lapp's memorial service in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He was killed in Afghanistan in August of 2010, while returning from a medical trip to the remote province of Nuristan.

"What's the son of an Amish-Mennonite reverend doing in Kenilworth Courts?  Going after kiddie car thieves."

Cover story I wrote for the Nov. 17, 2006 edition of the Washington City Paper, Washington DC's alternative weekly.  Lots of street-level action of my activism combating the spike in stolen auto joyriding in Kenilworth 2003 - 2006, with parallels to my father's experience as a missionary pastor there.

During March and April 2007 I had a run of columns published in Dawn - a Pakistani English-language newspaper - one a week in their Saturday edition.  They were short pieces featuring something I found interesting about Islamabad life and accompanied by an original photo.  Inside you can find all eight of these slices of Pakistani life.

Growing up in the urban black culture of Kenilworth in Washington DC, my siblings and I looked like rural Amish Mennonites but didn't always talk that way.

Some thoughts on writing as work, and the attitude toward work passed down to me by my father (a preacher) and grandfather (a farmer).  Published in Divided City , spring 2006.

Some lines from my experience as a US expatriate in Pakistan.

Art that reflects a choice toward peace and community wholeness, including some protest signs, a pile of stuffed animals, and some graffiti modifications.