Tag: musings
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Ten thousand.
There’s one week left in my Kickstarter campaign for the Ancient Egyptian Daybook project, and today, we reached our first stretch goal of ten thousand dollars. I’m trying to wrap my head around the idea that people (at least two-thirds of whom are unknown to me) are supporting my ability to publish a project that’s…
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October, already?
Hard to believe the summer’s gone and we’re back in October already. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic, something I wrote a long article about last year, which I mentioned at length in Haitian Vodou. Haiti is still very much on my mind. Though I admit this summer, I’ve…
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Haiti Reads – And You Can Help
A few days ago, I was contacted on my Facebook page for my Haitian/Haitian Vodou work by a woman who is the founder of Haiti Reads, an organization that runs a library and school for students in Carrefour, Haiti. We got to talking, and I offered to donate one of my Haitian Vodou books to…
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Route 66, Day 7: Barstow, San Bernardino….take that California trip
(Note: Links and photos (finally!) added 9 May 2012. Hope you enjoyed the trip!) Thursday morning dawned warm. Noticed the palm trees at the hotel door on my way out to get started for the morning, and noted the amount of miles I had to cover. This was going to be a long day, but…
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Route 66, Day 6: Gallup, New Mexico; Flagstaff, Arizona, (Don’t Forget) Winona, Kingman….
(Note: I’m typing these up as I go.) (ETA: Links and photographs added February 11, 2012). After waking up early in Mordor Grants, I ended up having to wait a bit for the temperature to come up enough that I wouldn’t have to worry about fog or condensation freezing on the pavement. Turns out this…