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men of god pray for a diarrhoea curse
Unbelievable! I’m waiting to read somewhere that this is not for real. Read more
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scheer during the civil war #3
April 24, 2006 (In response to the headquarters in Hosur asking Roy if there was anything they could do for us from India) Come to think of it, you can FedEx me some Chicken Biryani. All there is to eat is rice, lentils and potatoes. Crops are rotting in the fileds due to the extended Read more
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my okra syndrome
Yesterday was the first time in over 20 years that I saw fresh okra in my grocery store. Bright green, fresh and tender, the okra brought back memories of learning to cook–standing on a footstool, sharing the kitchen counter with my mother. As I rinsed my okra, I remembered instructions and warnings mom had drilled Read more
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scheer during the civil war–#2
Brief emails from Roy to the head office during the civil war in Nepal. March 10, 2006 We’re on a mass casualty alert –the first one in the history of the hospital. Banepa is a war zone. The police station has been destroyed, the municipal building sacked and burnt, and now there’s about 1200 demonstrators Read more
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i’m moving to france!
On those extra long days when I want to run away, I wistfully run down my mental list of places I’d move to if I could. And France is definitely not on the list. But for this, I’d scratch my list and move to France. How cool if there were one of these at every Read more
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not everything’s from china
It’s really hard to believe that everything in the dollar store is not made in China. But that’s what this article says. Read more
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memo from the ceo
Cleaning out my hard drive today, I came across this email Roy wrote the expatriate staff at the hospital in Nepal, at the height of the civil war. Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 7:26 a.m. Please be apprised that I have been in contact with both Elder Ron Watts, President of the Southern Asia Division, and Read more
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the real yemen
When I hear anything about Yemen, I quickly word-associate it with Chandler. And just as quickly I laugh to myself while conjuring scenes of Chandler Bing perched on a dusty camel traversing the dry, wasted desert land towards his dung-plastered hut. Yeah, yeah, I know–There’s a lot more to Yemen than one episode of Friends. Read more
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small degrees of change
August 2008 brought to New York City heat waves and concerns about the rise in utility costs. That was when United Nations secretariat building decided to take the lead in energy conservation. Employees were asked to dress down to cool summer attire, the thermostat was turned up five degrees to 77 F everywhere in the Read more
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