What Do I Know?

This cartoon in today's paper got me wondering exactly where the word 'hogwash' comes from.  Online references are iffy, so t...

These singers are using the same Karen language of the people in the Fire Break posts . I like Thai music, but it took a long time for my W...

These are some of the women who were at the ceremony and their beautiful hand made clothes. This woman said it took three days to embroider ...

These villagers could do anything with bamboo, and they did. The posters were posted on bamboo bulletin boards, and the stage where the spe...

The sign says, roughly, Celebration/Ceremony to Open the Fire Break - Mae Ba Sao and Mae Khong Sai People and the Forest Can Live in Sustain...

We were up for the sunrise again - our ride was going to pick us up at 8am. (The first picture is the sun through the trees, not a fire.)...

The mountain just grows up from the plains, silhoueted by the pink sky, hazy in the late afternoon smoke. As it got darker, we could see bit...

KS, an Indian Ed teacher in the Anchorage School District invited me to meet with some of his students to talk about the Peace Corps. What ...

[I tried posting this last night and something was wrong. Then the electricity went out. After it came back on the internet didn't work...

We came over to the dining hall as the sun was setting. All the students were there waiting for us. We met Mark, an Irishman and his partn...

I'm at a school in Umphang, a small community on the Burmese border. The headmaster, Somprasong, was one of my Peace Corps students abo...