2 Years in Peace Corps Thailand
A thank you video for the teachers and friends I’ve made in Peace Corps Thailand. A very sweet family thank-you-video coming soon. 5 days and counting, America. สองปีในประเทศไทย โรงเรียนขอขอบคุณคุณช่องแคพิทยาคม
A thank you video for the teachers and friends I’ve made in Peace Corps Thailand. A very sweet family thank-you-video coming soon. 5 days and counting, America. สองปีในประเทศไทย โรงเรียนขอขอบคุณคุณช่องแคพิทยาคม
Sometimes the food comes in droves. Sometimes it doesn’t. A really long time ago in our service, strange, seemingly unreal things became our new normal. We adopted things that may […]
My friends and I often talk about how our Peace Corps service and marriage are so similar. “I’m married to the Peace Corps,” we’ll jokingly say. Interestingly, I can’t find […]
Need a little inspiration? Need a little faith in humanity to get your New Year’s started off right? Need a reminder why we always try to make this world a […]
Okay, I know. It’s Friday, even late Thursday night in some parts of the world, but I’m busting at the seam to post some photos, so you can reap some […]
In just two weeks I will start my COS conference with the Peace Corps. COS stands for “close of service” and in many ways “continuation of service,” too. A flurry […]
Two months ago in July my host grandmother, Yai, stayed in the hospital for over 5 days. At that time, there was a lot of chaos and anxiety in the […]
It’s a pretty simple theory: anything that whittles the world down into a smaller, more intimate and manageable size does the soul good. We regain our balance from anything that […]
When the woman I thought I was going to marry me left me, the world fell silent. For some reason, that silence urged me to listen. So, one night, between […]
My newest co-teacher, a 55-year old single Thai woman with a passion to learn English, drags in a phonics book taller than me into the classroom. She plops it on […]
Breathe, little one, just breathe. Take slow, steady, sips of water. Feel the cool sensation on your lips. Feel it roll over your tongue. You were a stranger at one […]
We all get stuck sometimes. Often life challenges our faith in humanity. Sometimes we’re encumbered by the sad hardships and harsh realities. We forget to hold on to who we […]
A salt soaked tear caresses my lip rolling along until it soaks into my shirt. I think of the waste, the people without the purpose and the trivial accessories in […]
With your shoulder blades glowing in moonlight. Lips pursing together making a presence of their own. Irises piercing through me I see your emotion sweep across your face. Body reacting […]
Did it begin with that familiar laughter we shared during those hot sticky days of our youth, where it felt as though our bed sheets would melt into our skin? […]