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The Dolphin Show

By on July 16, 2024

It was not in the baking heat of Phoenix, but in the boiling sauna of Atlanta in July, that I stuck myself in a sticky situation. A man was shouting “Ma’am, Ma’am” and I turned immediately to accept my fate: guilty as charged. But my niece and I were…


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Las montañas: Returning to Guatemala, 1

By on February 26, 2024

So, I booked a trip. 

I’ve been lucky to book so many before, but this one took some plotting.

All of the layovers on the US dollar looked egregious: red eyes on opposite coasts, or three layovers and a red eye in Texas. Red Eye in Texas is the name of…


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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

By on September 30, 2021

I can’t stop talking about teaching.

It’s not because I can’t find something else to talk about, it’s just that it is all I am doing. I say hello to all of the students everyday and I saw their names. When they leave, I say all of their names…

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.