Visa Drama Visa!
M&E: A Digication
Beheading the Zen Master: The Guide and the Communicator
Liters of Light
Housing Scams: Beware!
The Problem with Xinjiang
The Pharmaceutical Symposium
To Be or Not to Be…A Sweat Pink Ambassador (!)
Public Health Alert: To CLEAN or to GREEN?
Laojiao Reinvigorated
The Hunger Banquet
Event☼ »
Liters of Light (1)
When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line last Monday, the entire city was flabbergasted. Friends, loved ones, and even professors checked in to make sure I was ok. All we knew was that a graduate student from BU was dead, but no one knew who. We were constantly reminded to stay… Read More ›
WTF!? »
Visa Drama Visa! (0)
I applied for a post one time as a consulate adjudicator in China (unsuccessfully). As a contract position with the Foreign Service, it came with free accommodation, double holidays (both Chinese and American) and a generous starting salary in US dollars. One thing I’ll never understand: If consulate life is so sweet, then why are… Read More ›
Travel☼ »
The Biggest Baddest Bucket List! (0)
Hi everyone! My friend Jean just made this great video about her home town Kuching, Malaysia! She’s trying to win the ‘Biggest Baddest Bucket-List’ Competition by showcasing Kuching and all its wonders! I met Jean last summer, when I couchsurfed through Borneo, and she was an absolutely amazing person who exercised all sorts of kindness… Read More ›
Public Health☼ »
M&E: A Digication (1)
Monitoring and Evaluation. In this case, of International Health interventions. About two weeks ago, the head of our IH department cited M&E as having the largest demand for IH professionals, and thus isolated it as the single beacon of light for many of us going into the field of international development. A burgeoning sub field… Read More ›
Culture☼ »
Cirque du Soleil goes Saltimbanco! (4)
For someone slowly becoming enamored with living in an American metropolis, it was all too fitting that Saltimbanco should come to Massachusetts. The earliest traveling installment of Circ du Soleil, it counters the violence of modern times by reviving joy in the simple fact of life. Becoming something of an *unintentional* cirque connoisseur, (this was my… Read More ›
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