God Bless the fallen and our troops defending our freedom as I write this. Please take a moment to remember and honor all we have to be thankful for. There’s always a contribution to be made. As you know, I am a passionate returned Peace Corps volunteer and...
Today is the Peace Corps National Day of Action. It also happens to be the day I finally uploaded some of the many photos from my tour of duty in Turkmenistan. A coinsidence, I think not! The Peace Corps comes up for me on a nearly daily basis. In fact, I spoke on a...
Wow! I can hardly believe it’s been nearly 10 years since I returned from my work as a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Turkmenistan. Connecting flights in Azerbaijan… ah those were the days. But I digress… Something I saw on telly last week...
Poverty… To write about it is to see it. To experience it. To try to save people from it. Hopefully. Once upon a time, I was a TV reporter in my hometown. I was known – and to be known – by anyone and everyone who knew my stories about...
Magazine, Newspaper & Web Dinner with Sopranos is offer that’s hard to refuse (Contra Costa Times, Sept. 14, 2001) [theater review] Jennifer as Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan [written in Turkmen cyrillic, 1998-1999 *Translation to come] In Action (Page 5,...
My last two years of high school, I was involved in the Forensics program (otherwise known as speech and debate). I remember being scared shitless; I mean I already had issues being around men (my father’s death at age 34 strained many areas of my young life),...
