兔食: Rabbit Food

Some Ohabolagna Fo’ Yah!

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:14:43 -0600

Here in Befandriana-Nord, Madagascar I live amongst the Tsimihety people and speak the Tsimihety...

Props to Pacific Love for coming up with a hilarious song that...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:17:00 -0500

Props to Pacific Love for coming up with a hilarious song that captures what life can be like as a Peace Corps Volunteer regardless of sector or site.

A Night in Befandriana-Nord

Sat, 21 May 2011 04:15:00 -0500

8:42 PM Befandriana-Nord is structured around a main, albeit still in wretched condition, road that...

Fat Foot, Sweaty Back, Shrimp Bag and Broken Brousse, or, Travel in Madagascar

Sat, 21 May 2011 04:10:00 -0500

What’s your worst travel story? Long layover? Flat tire? Or the classic, a baby that...

"Beware the Ides of March"

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:50:00 -0500

There’s been an interlude between my last post and this most recent, the reason for the delay being...

Green or Yellow? Long or Round?

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:46:00 -0600

Do you like Mangos? Do you like Diego Mangos? Or Long Mangos? Or do you like the sweet tartness...

Sixteen to Twenty

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600

SIXTEEN HOURS A WEEK Pens; notebooks; a blackboard; chalk; tables to seat eighty students; four...

BRIDAL SHOWER

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:04:00 -0600

Perhaps, in a distant café,four or five people are talkingwith the four or five peoplewho are...

GETTING IT WRONG

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:55:00 -0600

“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without...

Not Cutting My Hair In the Land Where Hair Was Not Cut

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:37:07 -0600

“To be or not to be, that is the question”—at least in English it is. In Malagasy,...

Getting Away From it All

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:20:00 -0500

I have lived in Madagascar now for close to three months. In that time, I have witnessed dusk...

Peace Corps Madagascar Site Visit: ‘The Black Hole’

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:06:36 -0500

Peace Corps Madagascar Site Visit: ‘The Black Hole’

A Note on Blog Posts

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:50:06 -0500

I am committed to maintaining this blog as a way of sharing my Peace Corps experience with friends,...

"‘I read,’ I say. ‘I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything you’ve..."

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:47:00 -0500

“‘I read,’ I say. ‘I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything...

"The insights gained and garnered by the mind in its wanderings among basic concepts are benefits..."

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:37:00 -0600

“The insights gained and garnered by the mind in its wanderings among basic concepts are...

"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means."

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:43:00 -0600

“War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.” - Carl Von Clausewitz, On...

"The world is ours, the nation is ours, society is ours. If we do not speak, who will speak? If we do..."

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:36:00 -0600

“The world is ours, the nation is ours, society is ours. If we do not speak, who will speak?...

"You're Not Unique"

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:14:00 -0600

“Now then, my lad, you’re still young, and as time goes on you’ll come to adopt...

"Pleasure is indeed a proper criterion in the arts, but not the pleasure experienced by anybody and..."

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:39:00 -0600

“Pleasure is indeed a proper criterion in the arts, but not the pleasure experienced by...

"The exclusion of the public from the parliamentary deliberations could no longer in any event be..."

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:25:00 -0600

“The exclusion of the public from the parliamentary deliberations could no longer in any event...