Category: Peace Corps
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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 AmeriCorps inaugural year volunteer. Find opportunities to…
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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 panel…
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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.
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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 last-dash Christmas…
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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, The New California Democrat, Vol. 4 – Winter 1994-95) [DLC of California] Journey of Love…
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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), but I remember being around my Svengali-esque forensics…