I Am a Pineapple

"I Am a Pineapple" is my memoir (in the James Frey sense of that word) of 2 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand.

One of the first barriers to teaching was simply that many students could not see the blackboard. (But thanks to an organization called AMIGOS, the entire school was fitted with glasses.)

Snake eat buffalo. Turn into papaya.

The Artist Formerly Known as "Horse Breath"

Thais have a tradition of giving their children intentionally unpleasant nicknames…

What you think? Spirit stupid?

Field Testing the Edumatic

It really was "the toughest job you'll ever love." I fantasized how it could be easier…

Blecch! I hated first-year calculus