Devastating the Garden of Eden
I’m auditing a course on globalization in preparation for writing my dissertation on transformative education—you know, my thing on how a revolutionary approach to functional learning can transform mental capacity […]
Category Archives: Satisfying the Wanderlust
The Full Nicaragua — Part II
Delightful as it might have been to bump our way straight back to Las Penitas after my survival of the El Cerro Negro torture test and sink, battered and bruised, […]
Merry Potentially Posthumous Christmas
What’s the perfect Christmas gift for someone who has lately been saved from cancer (not to mention the fact that she also lost her mother and a beloved dog in […]
Walls
Something there is, that does not love a wall…. Something, perhaps, but not humans. We love walls from Pyramus and Thisbe to Wall-E. We are the only large apes on the planet who […]
Nicaragua as convalescence — day 1
After 48 hours’ grueling travel, gratia US Customs, I am delighted to sink into a tropical night in a hotel across from Managua’s airport. Hotel Las Mercedes is designed like a clam […]
The Law of Love 