Category: Peace Corps
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I’m sitting in an iHop, waiting for my breakfast. It’s 9:32 am on July 4th. I think it’s about time to update my status of my move to South Carolina. Back when I started this new chapter I knew there would be challenges. I’ve been around the block a few times and change and challenges…
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Back when I was a kid, growing up in the heart of Baltimore, there were fireflies. Though they no longer herald summer evenings with flashes of green and gold in the gardens and backyards of west Baltimore, they had continued to exist right at the edge of my memory, fading like all memories do as…
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I recently read an article by Darnell Mayberry, whose finance focused articles can be found on Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, in which he discusses his newfound frugality mindset. Mr. Mayberry recalls how his grandparent’s tightfisted nature was a call for childhood secret missions to the corner store for sweets instead of whatever the grandparents…
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I left home when I was 17. It seems I’ve been traveling ever since. The truth is that, while I am prone to moving around, I’ve been in one place for the largest portion of my life. That place is Orlando, Florida. I’ve been here close to 30 years! As I think about it, I…
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This isn’t my first bout with Covid. If you’ve followed my blog then you’ll know that my stint in the Peace Corps was cut short when the disease first reared its nasty little head back in 2020. I was a few months into my third year in Namibia when the Corps made the unprecedented decision…
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Hello all, Recently I rediscovered a cache of stories I had written long ago. We’re talking 30+ years ago for some stories. Back then I wanted and tried to write science fiction and speculative fiction in a short story format. I had dreams of getting those stories published in magazines and genre periodicals. I did…
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Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel titled ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ which told of an author who wrote about his hometown, and though the novel was a success the people in the town he wrote about took issue with how he portrayed them. The author, then, could never return to the home he knew. Leaving…
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I may have mentioned in a previous post that I entered a short movie into several film festivals. The movie, ‘Mosquito Love’, was selected for showing in the monthly Life Screening One Minute Film Festival and will be shown on December 3 at 4:15pm EST. While this is great news, I’ll have to admit that…
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When I was a kid I dreamt of piloting something, anything that flew. Jets, biplanes, rocket ships, if it provided a means of minimizing the affects of gravity, however temporary, I wanted to do it. As home computers grew more powerful flight simulators programs (I called them, “Flight Stimulators”) began to appear. When I first…
