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Bear with me for a bit. (Or don't and just scroll down to JUMP TO HERE below.) I've been learning Turkish on Duolingo for a while.  ...

So, this is what it looked like Tuesday after the clouds cleared after Anchorage's first snow of the year.  A bit late, but it's her...

Blog post are backed up waiting to get through the Panama Canal equivalent of from my brain to my fingertips.  Floating out there are posts ...

Back in May I described my itinerary - Chiangmai to Bangkok - 745 kilometers.  I'm doing this on the bike trails of Anchorage.  The orig...

Note: Another big COVID increase today.  Click COVID tab above for daily updates on state case counts 1.   Alaska's newly appointe...

As an RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) I feel compelled to note here that some 7300 active Peace Corps volunteers were brought back hom...

Yesterday I took my grandson to the California Academy of Science. I wanted to do a redo of their earthquake reenactment room.  I'd be...

I mentioned Michael Meyer's book The Road To Sleeping Dragon in the last post. Meyer went to  a rural Sichuan province as a Peace Cor...

Our guests of two weeks had a 6am flight, so we left the house a little after 4am.  D's family is family and it was great to have the th...

See Note About the Cover Below* At the end of my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer, I read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's...

Here's from an email I got from The National Peace Corps Association: "President Trump has nominated Josephine "Jody"...