Dear President Obama…..
October 9, 2013 TO: Barack Obama, President United States of America Dear Mr. President, In my 58 years, despite having participated in every election I have been eligible for, and […]
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The teacher, the boy, and his Red Sox
“Teacher, there are so many things I do not understand. It all seems so wide, so big, so…..lost,” said the listless student as rain pummeled the Thai countryside. Lotus blossoms, […]
» Read moreMalaria madness…fevers, chills and the cookie doctor
In my altered state of malaria-induced fogginess, New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport presented itself as an oblong-shaped mass of concrete and steel, a visually skewed version of the modern airport […]
» Read moreAmbushed by India…all of it
I was not prepared for you, India. I had expected to tolerate you, coexist, to survive you. Armed with countless stories of poverty, heat, struggles, illness and attitudes that run […]
» Read moreThe gifts of the desert
Our bed was a simple platform with a mattress on it raised slightly above the cooling sand. Our nightlight was a billion stars above against a coal blue/grey sky that […]
» Read moreA day of India, unleashed
This was a day of immense and unrelenting surprises. The drive from Udaipur to Ranakpur and on to Jodhpur was a constant string of stunning roadside vistas, of chance meetings […]
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