Sugar-free dry lemon
Swimming at Virgin Active Health Club, Cascades
A divining with a Zulu traditional healer
Editors who accepted my pitches, then made my stories better
Twitter and Facebook friends who connected me to home
iTunes
Happy hour with the American Banker newsroom
Visiting Kingsmead Cricket Ground with Vasu
The friendship of Tala and Juma and our visits to Cedara
Learning to drive a Land Rover
Reading Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom” and Peter Godwin’s “Mukiwa”
Cape Town
Thursday nights at Red Lantern
A different menorah for each day of Chanukah
Signal Hill at sunset, with coffee by the Coffee Maestro
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album
Swimming with Dad at the JCC
Standing outside at 4:00 a.m. and gazing at a sky full of stars
RW1 reunions
Falling asleep on the lawn at Tumble Downs
Christmas Day visits
Standing in the township, looking out at the homes that dot the hillsides, the town in the valley below and the mountains beyond
Lunch with Krista in the middle of Broadway
Sports Day at Edendale Hospital
PopTech
Pippin with Stacy, Dan, Andrew, Maddie and Josh
Swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off Africa
Visiting Cesar Vallejo’s grave
Jumping off a sailboat into Long Island Sound
Walking through Carnegie Mellon’s campus with Mom and Krista
Swimming at Asphalt Green, Battery Park City
The Black Tonic at Cape Town Microroasters
Eating oysters for the first time, at Ray’s Boathouse
Braais
Gutters full of jacaranda blossoms
Summer days at Butler Library
Vanilla milkshake at the Minnesota State Fair
Listening to Sidney Bechet
The all-night painting fest with James and Veronique
That Liam Neeson/Ricky Gervais video
Graduating from Columbia J-School
Having a Citi Bike key
Meeting Purple Ferdinand
Dancing with Makhosis to house music at the beach
Cycling through the streets of Paris at night
Walking with Krista through the Public Garden
The Tecate and Tabasco Michelada at Mary’s Fish Camp
Visiting Parliament in Cape Town
Soccer clinic with the Wave
Josh describing his former cellphone as a “dumb phone”
Whippoorwills in the predawn
The “Rock n’ Roll” rabbi
Mesut Ozil’s free kick
A first date with Krista, finally…