Tag: Peace Corps
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Just a women’s issue. Really?
Although I’m probably now pro-choice–I haven’t decided–I have to take exception with the idea that abortion is only a woman’s issue. Some women may believe that but, based on my own experience, a woman’s decision about whether or not to abort an unborn child can affect the father of that unborn child every bit as…
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Kennedy Conspiracy Resurrected (Part 2)
I didn’t consider New York City to be a training ground for the Peace Corps. Official training was not to start for another month. Nor did I expect to see a doppelganger of Lee Harvey Osward, the man who’d assassinated President John F. Kennedy more than seven years before. By 1971, my folks had moved…
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Why I Write, Who I am, etc.
Firstly, I should say that the h in Nakhon Phanom is silent. It’s there because that’s the way linguists decided to spell the Thai consonants that way in English. The town and province in Thailand is actually pronounced Nakone Panome with kone like an ice cream cone and nome as in Nome Alaska. When I…
Wars Suck 