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Dear President Obama…..
October 9, 2013 TO: Barack Obama, President United States of America Dear Mr. President, In my 58 years,…
Author: Skip
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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,”…
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Malaria 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…
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Ambushed by India…all of it
I was not prepared for you, India. I had expected to tolerate you, coexist, to survive you. Armed…
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The gifts of the desert
Our bed was a simple platform with a mattress on it raised slightly above the cooling sand. Our…
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A day of India, unleashed
This was a day of immense and unrelenting surprises. The drive from Udaipur to Ranakpur and on to…