I’ve mentioned before that I was writing and illustrating a book for children. I haven’t forgotten about it, the book is finally taking shape! After trying a lot of techniques, I settled for mixed media: collage, water colors, acrylics & pastels. I still have a long way to go to decide [...]

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I wanted to write a short post to promote the beautiful calendars that the Asociacion Tena has made in Spain to collect money for their projects in Ethiopia. These 2011 calendars have beautiful pictures taken in Ethiopia and even when they display the western calendar, it’s very special because the days [...]

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Sometimes people ask me how do I write certain Amharic word in Latin characters, and it’s hard to explain that there is no “right” way to do it. The process of converting Amharic characters to Latin characters is called transliteration. Transliteration is also applied to other languages like Chinese, or [...]

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Today I discovered a little app for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad with the Amharic alphabet Feedel. It’s very basic, only has the characters with the sounds but no example of them used in words, no numbers, or help on how to write them. Children will probably [...]

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