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- John Coyne and Marian Haley Beil are happy to present Peace Corps Worldwide, an online community and resource for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), their friends and families, and all who share a desire for international understanding. Peace Corps Worldwide is in no way associated with the Peace Corps or the National Peace Corps Association.
Mandela Remembered - Posted 4 hours ago to Your Money: In the New Economy
Nelson Mandela's death brings to mind two times I came close to the great man.  While stationed at our Consulate General in Johannesburg in 1987 I received a phone call from our embassy in Pretoria.  Our ambassador who was an African-American wanted to see Nelson who was still in jail at that time. The embassy staff knew that the allocation of  the limited visits to see him was controlled by his wife Winnie and wanted.. (Read More)
KENNEDY PEACE CORPS COMMEMORATION ACT PASSES COMMITTEE - Posted 15 hours ago to John Coyne Babbles
Dec 4, 2013 Press Release Washington, DC - Congressman Joe Kennedy applauded today's passage of the Peace Corps Commemoration Act (H.R. 915) by the House Committee on Natural Resources. Kennedy introduced this cost-free legislation in February to authorize the non-profit Peace Corps.. (Read More)
FINALLY! The Peace Corps Is Improving Business Processes - Posted 21 hours ago to John Coyne Babbles
[Thanks to Joanne Roll (Colombia 1963-65) for the 'heads up' on this item.] by Jason Miller Federal News Radio The Peace Corps is moving toward a lightweight, agile technology environment. And one way it's doing that is by working differently with the business side of the house. "It used to be that people didn't like working with us so at the very last minute they'd call us and say, 'we.. (Read More)
Getting rid of paper processes at the Peace Corps - Posted 21 hours ago to John Coyne Babbles
[Thanks to Joanne Roll (Colombia 1963-65) for the 'heads up' on this item.] April 28, 2011 -- The Peace Corps is modernizing the last of its global infrastructure networks this year and then it's time for a break...sort of. Dorine Andrews says the 50-year-old agency will take a step back and reassess the status and health of its IT infrastructure and systems. Andrews, who's been CIO at the.. (Read More)
Review of Tom Weck's (Ethiopia 1965-67) Bully Bean - Posted 22 hours ago to Peace Corps Writers
Bully Bean (Lima Bear Stories) Thomas Weck (Ethiopia 1965-67) and Peter Weck, Illustrated by Len DiSalvo Lima Bear Press 30 pages $15.95 (hardcover) 2013 Reviewed by Tony D'Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03) By this point, I think it's safe to say that my kids will grow up with Thomas and Peter Weck's Lima Bears; the series first appeared two years ago, and we've been following them ever since. In the.. (Read More)
Peace Corps Writers publishes Jon Thiem's Letters from Ghana 1968–1970 - Posted 1 day ago to Peace Corps Writers
Several years back, author/editor Jon Thiem mentioned to a young woman (with a Ph.D.) that in the late 1960s he had served in the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa. She thought he was talking about a United Nations Peace Keeping operation! Taken by surprise, he laughed and thanked her for the alternative biography she had bestowed on him. Then he told her about Peace Corps. The incident was what initially inspired him to compile.. (Read More)
New-Home Sales Soaring - Posted 1 day ago to Your Money: Popular Freakonomics
The Mortgage Corner There aren’t enough new homes being built, apparently, as new U.S. homes sold at an annual rate of 444,000 in October, up 25.4 percent from 354,000 in September, the U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday. And the inventory of new homes for sale plunged to a post-recession low of 4.9 months, which puts for-sale inventories back into 1960 levels. (Read More)
Review of William G. Spain's The African Adventures of James Johnson - Posted 2 days ago to Peace Corps Writers
Bubba: The African Adventures of James Johnson by William G. Spain (Malawi 1966–68) ZIWA Books $25.00 (paperback) 400 pages 2013 Reviewed by Walter Morris Baker, Ph.D. (Ethiopia 1966-68) Reading novels for pleasure is not a usual practice for me. Since leaving Peace Corps service almost fifty years ago, my reading has been primarily directed toward reading professional articles and books related to my career as a Psychologist and.. (Read More)
Go See Gaudi in Barcelona - Posted 3 days ago to John Coyne Babbles
Barcelona is worth a visit just to see the works of Catalonia's Modernist architect Antoni Gaudà  (1852-1926). Gaudà was born close to Barcelona and was sent there at seventeen to study architecture. His teachers found him 'difficult' because of his 'strange' ways of treating structural shapes. That didn't stop him. Gaudà is noted for his reflection of nature in his designs, from curved construction stones, twisted iron sculptures, and brightly colored tiles arranged in mosaic.. (Read More)
A Requiem to Love and/or Reason and/or Liberty - Posted 5 days ago to Homesteading: Starting from Scratch
Euphoria! It's telling me to come forward. I never want to lose what I have finally found. This feeling emblazed inside Every nerve like a firefly Hovering above me Glow glow, glowing divin This is the time to give love I feel a stirring deep within Listen: Delerium - Euphoria (firefly) Lyrics | MetroLyrics Oh wait, that's a Madonna sound-alike. Not who I meant to mention, how cliché.  Actually, I'm so more sophisticated than that.  Because, like, among my.. (Read More)
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- Dianne Chrystal: What's up, after reading this awesome piece of writing i am as well happy to share my knowledge here with friends.|||| Free Perfume Samples [more...]
- Ronald A Schwarz: It looks like another Kennedy has picked up the torch. I plan to send him a handwritten note of thanks. [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: The old computer maxim still rules, "GIGO," or garbage in, garbage out. Technology does not change bad habits and misguided policies it only increases the damage they do. [more...]
- FlacoBob: Excellent piece...I plan to share this with Volunteers and Host Country Nationals...feel proud to see Peace Corps taking the lead in a field so important to our efforts at home and overseas. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Bob Arias Re [more...]
- Edward Mycue: Let me add that the other editor who I didn't mention is equal in authority, grace, and ability. Her name is Marian Haley Beil, also a former PCV from the early days. The flowering of RCPV older women and men is just amazing. I wonder if this may [more...]
- Edward Mycue: I agree. These reviews are so interesting and all the more so since many reviewers are not "polished professionals" but intelligent, accomplished persons telling their truths even when crazyness interupts accepted delusions. John Coyne charges ofte [more...]
- Joanne Roll: All of the reviews, including this one, are so good. They deserve a book. [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: Gaudy - Gaudi, hmmm. [more...]
- mishelle: Leo, it's mishelleshepard@hotmail.com [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: Mishelle. Will be happy to comment on my situation but in email to you not on this comment page. What is your email address? [more...]
- Mishelle Shepard: Leo I definitely am hearing the frustration on the part of men and believe it's time as women we stop talking and start listening. No buts, but an and . . . And maybe it's permeating because any sort of "gender gap trauma" is going to be very dang [more...]
- Robert E. Hamilton: What luck to find Dr. McCaskey again following our two years in Ethiopia (1965-67) as well as calendar Paris and to hang both--McCaskey figuratively--on our kitchen wall! Paula and I share Mike's enthusiasm for strolling the city's neighborhoods and [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: Once again the gender gap floats to the top. Having just experienced my most brutal gender gap trauma ever I am a bit focused on it. But it seems to permeate the society at this time. [more...]
- granny: In answer to how low can we go? I think all the news stories of incidents occurring during " Black Friday" such as shooting, knifing, tasering, macing, & just all out brawling can give you a good idea. The vacant look in the eyes of some of the [more...]
- John Coyne: Leo, you are to suggest books by other RPCV writers, not Mitchner or Hemingway or Robert Stone....get with the program! [more...]
- Leo Cecchini: I suggest one read "Caravans" by Mitchner to gain a fuller image of Afghanistan pre-Soviet/US invasions. The country has a long history of constant warfare, just check out the exploits of Alexander the Great whose image is on statues throughout the [more...]