Category: Travel
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Profile: Peter Tomsen
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Peter Tomsen cut a path from the Peace Corps to an ambassadorship through jungle warfare in Vietnam, negotiating Peace Corps into China, and serving as Special Envoy to Afghanistan after Soviet withdrawal.
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Profile: Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr.
Sketch profiling Ambassador Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr. from a forthcoming nonfiction boook of profiles that explore Peace Corps roots in American diplomacy.
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Cold War Peace Corps
Ben East shares a story about Parker Borg, tapped by Ronald Regan to be U.S. Ambassador in Mali, the first Returned Peace Corps Volunteer in such a position
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Launch of New Podcast
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Novelist Ben East introduces a new podcast about building international relations for a stronger America.
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Fooling around with cover art
This is not my first time designing a jacket. That turned out disastrously…
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Jimmy Carter
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I met him in Accra when the Carter Center visited Ghana for an update on its Guinea Worm eradication program. He was humble, polite, and eager to hear from the embassy briefers.
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Crossing the Potomac on an Icy Morning
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in Auto Repair, Automobile, Biking, Cars, Driving, Health, Nature, Seasons, Sports, Travel, Virginia, Washington, Weather, Winter, WritingFar from loathsome, I found magic in the chill, and the magic felt transformative, wakeful.
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Illusions
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in Automobile, Calendar, Driving, Holidays, Home, Seasons, Thanksgiving, Time, Travel, Virginia, Washington, WinterSurrounded by reality, I had to accept that it didn’t matter what the mirror said about the objects on the road. I just had to make my way home.
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A Hearth on the Far Horizon
Keeping Fred at home allows him to decompress from the unnerving stimuli that accost the average earthling when this author forces them out the front door to shop for a couch or silence the leaf blower guy or have his oil changed.
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