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- John Coyne and Marian Haley Beil are happy to present Peace Corps Worldwide, an online community and resource for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), their friends and families, and all who share a desire for international understanding. Peace Corps Worldwide is a project of the non-profit Peace Corps Fund, and is in no way associated with the Peace Corps.
Blood Bath - Posted 22 hours ago to Your Money: In the New Economy
Anyone who has seen the "Bear Country Jamboree" at Disneyland or Disneyworld will recall the doleful song that goes, "There was blood on the saddle, blood on the ground, and a great big puddle of blood all around." This will probably best describe the elections this November. A prolonged economic slump with record high unemployment has put the whole country into a funk. The frustration has led to widespread discontent with the.. (Read More)
August Books by Peace Corps Writers - Posted 2 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Name Tagging (Photography) by Martha Cooper (Thailand 1963–65) Mark Batty Publisher $12.95 96 pages July 2010 • Under the Same Moon by Kelli M. Donley (Cameroon 2000) Donley Books $16.00 356 pages May 2010 • The Henderson Memories (Peace Corps novel) by Doug Ingold (Brazil 1964-66) Wolfenden Publishing $14.95 Kindle Edition, $9.75 379 pages 2010 (Read More)
Technology Changes Life In The Peace Corps - Posted 2 days ago to John Coyne Babbles
[Another report from our RPCV Costa Rica Correspondent. This news item was in their A.M. Costa Rica wire services.] In the early 1980s, Gordy Mengel served as a Peace Corps volunteer in an isolated community in what was then called Zaire, now Congo. "I was placed somewhere in the middle part of the country," said Mengel. "And in the small community where I lived there was no post office, so getting letters out, which was basically the only.. (Read More)
Review: Doug Ingold's The Henderson Memories - Posted 3 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Reviewer Reilly Ridgell is the author of the recently released novel Green Pearl Odyssey and the anthology of Micronesian Peace Corps stories Bending to the Trade Winds. He is also the author of the widely used textbook, Pacific Nations and Territories, in print continuously since 1983, and co-author of its elementary level version Pacific Neighbors. Reilly is currently a dean at Guam Community College. • (Read More)
Review: Lauri Anderson's Hunting Hemingway's Trout - Posted 4 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Reviewer Mark Brazaitis is the author of three books of fiction, including The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and Steal My Heart, a novel that won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award given by Peace Corps Writers. His latest book is The Other Language: Poems, winner of the 2008 ABZ Poetry Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Witness, Notre Dame Review, Confrontation,.. (Read More)
#9: Successful Family Farms Keep Families Together - Posted 4 days ago to Homesteading: Starting from Scratch
The #9 reason why we need to overhaul our agricultural system is to maintain and hopefully ameliorate the strength of the family. Now I don't mean to say that in order to thrive we need to rely on a traditional family model, but what I will argue is that no matter what direction "family" takes in the future, the core values among them will need to be similar if society is to continue to function,.. (Read More)
Naomi Wolf to Teach Non-Fiction Web Course - Posted 4 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Naomi Wolf, bestselling author and feminist (in the third-wave) and a political consultant to Clinton, Gore, and others, as well as author of  the international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, is offering an Internet course "that offers participants the key content of the non-fiction workshop" that she has successfully taught in college classrooms. The Internet workshop will focus on key issues for writers of nonfiction, among them are:  1) how to turn an opinion into a publishable.. (Read More)
Review: Stanley Mazaroff's Collector & Connoisseur - Posted 4 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Leita Kaldi Davis worked for the United Nations and UNESCO, for Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University. She worked with Roma (Gypsies) for fifteen years, became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal at the age of 55, then went to work for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti for five years. She retired in Florida in 2002. She has written a memoir of Senegal, Roller Skating in the Desert,.. (Read More)
Our Costa Rica Reporter Sent The Following - Posted 4 days ago to John Coyne Babbles
Peace Corps volunteers will embark on energy initiative: Special to A.M. Costa Rica The U.S. Department of State is providing $1 million to support Peace Corps volunteer efforts that increase rural access to energy, mitigate the effects of climate change, and support the use of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies in Central and South American communities, in support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. With this funding, Peace Corps volunteers will work with.. (Read More)
"Running Scared" - Posted 4 days ago to Your Money: In the New Economy
Roy Orbison's hit song sums up the current sentiment prevailing in the USA. Eveyone either knows someone who has lost a job or has lost his/her job him/herself. All are scared of job loss. The Obama team has worked hard to change this situation, most notably with the "Stimulus Bill," which should have been named the "Stabilization Bill." But the bad beat goes on. We are all "Running Scared." Many blame.. (Read More)
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- Joey: As for the song, Blood on the Saddle. There are those of us who remember Tex Ritter and saturday afternoon cowboy matinees. That was my little sister's favorite song and we used to sing it incessingly. Your analysis is probably right, Leo. But, [more...]
- Joey: One of the many loses due to the bizarre organization of PC/W is that PCVs and RPCVs did not have a structured way to compare experiences. How we communicated and as importantly, with whom we communciated is a critical piece of the Peace Corps exper [more...]
- Nick Royal: I am well aware that people keep in touch w. each other so easily now. But, in many ways, being isolated and away from home for the 15 months or 2 years, made the P.C. experience special. Life goes on, with various changes, and the world is certa [more...]
- Tony D'Souza: For what it's worth, Joyce and Faulkner didn't always use quotations marks, sometimes wrote in the present tense. It's safe to say that they were also hard to read. [more...]
- ejplatt: Well, I was in the same group as Peppy and Bill, and she WAS a redhead! More importantly, last December, after 45 years, I became re-acquainted with one of my group who lived near the couple and befriended Peppy. This person reported that Peppy ha [more...]
- Tony D'Souza: Nice review. My wife and I were just talking about sentence couplings, specifically following a rambling sentence with a short counter punch sentence to clarify the meandering set up and bring it home. Hemingway has left such a great legacy. My favor [more...]
- BHillenbrand: The Walters museum in Baltimore does indeed have a fascinating collection with lots of Italian art. But it also have a very good collection of Ethiopian religious art, some of it on permanent display. Worth a visit for that alone. [more...]
- emiru: we need more news in detail about the horn of africa [more...]
- Joey: This is fantastic. However, how does it mesh with the Peace Corps decision to place volunteers with "minimal technical" skills? "Volunteers will train host-country citizens in the use of alternative fuels and to install, operate, and maintain en [more...]
- Shlomo: There are successful enclaves in Somalia where local leaders have created the conditions for normal local living...schools, markets, etc. Surrounded by regions dominated by extremist insurgents, these islands of normalcy, with only limited contact wi [more...]
- Marian Haley Beil: John - Surprisingly you forgot to mention PC Director Paul Coverdell - after whom the Peace Corps building is now appallingly named, whose numerous junkets to Georgia - the state, not the country - paved the way to his election to the Senate. [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: Whoa, Dave I was the Commercial Attache at several embassies. [more...]
- HARLAN GREEN: I agree with you, Leo...I was paraphrasing conservatives in general who want to label all debt as 'bad', because of anti-government bias. [more...]
- shlomo: I live in DC now and attend occasional lunches at the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs...a geezer gathering of retired government, military and private sector types who have worked overseas. Sitting next to a man who identified himself as a f [more...]
- Don Reinaldo: First PC site 1961: small village in coffee region in NW Colombia. No post office, no telephone and telegrams take 2-3 days to arrive. I learn Spanish and write long letters home. Today they provide outrageous memories of hunts for ravenous rats and [more...]
- dsearles: I confess! One Thanksgiving in Manila I arranged to buy a turkey from the US PX so we five could celebrate in a proper way America's best holiday. I should feel guilty, but I don't. On the other hand, I really can't image what instant commun [more...]