Category: Peace Corps
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A short work of fiction.
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I’ve never been one for sports. I don’t religiously follow teams, though I will watch a game recap. I could never properly perform a basketball layup, throw or catch a football with any finesse, or hit a baseball no matter how hard I tried, so I was always the last one to get picked for…
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I’ve always been fascinated by technology and its innate promise of making our lives easier and more productive. Computers have certainly filled a niche in our collective existence, a niche that, before they became pocketable, we didn’t even know was there. And now artificial intelligence (A.I.) appears to be the next technological frontier humankind is…
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(Note: This was a blog post I had forgotten to publish while I was in Namibia. The recipe still works though and it’s still pretty cheap. The ingredients may cost you about US$10 now, but it’s a quick and tasty lunch or light dinner.) Someone once said that necessity was the mother of invention. I…
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A Lot Going On: It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. It isn’t just that I’ve ignored it, I have, but it’s also because I’ve had other pressing issues on my mind. I’m not one to turn to social media for opinions about what I consider to be personal issues. I’m used to…
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I left Baltimore when I was 17, leaving behind everyone and everything I had known up to that point. Since then, I’ve never truly felt settled. No matter how far I’ve traveled, how breathtaking the vistas I’ve seen, or how fascinating the people I’ve met, there was always this persistent attraction, like gravity’s pull of…
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I read an article recently which described the term ‘hypernormalization’ as the feeling that everything around us is not right somehow, but we keep going through our daily routines as if all is right with the world. In other words: we instinctively know we’re in a hand basket heading to Hell, but instead of figuring…
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Anyone in the Mid-Atlantic Region looking to capture scrapbook memories of Autumn can pick up I-81 south out of Roanoke, Virginia and be rewarded with an explosion of reds, yellows, and browns as the lust verdant landscapes of Summer make way for Winter’s starkness. The more adventurous might decided to take a detour and explore…
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If you’ve lived in Florida for more than a few years, particularly the Orlando area, you tend to view hurricanes as a fact of life. They form, they blow and dump oceans of water of you, then move on. The flora and fauna of Central Florida has evolved to withstand all but the strongest storms.…
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Like many others, I’ve been fascinated by the thought of living in a tiny house. I even considered doing so while I planned my move to South Carolina. But after watching shows like Tiny House Nation, I soon realized that it takes a certain mentality and more than a little will power to confine one’s…
