Archive - March 11, 2014

Tony D’Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03) is a finalist for the 2014 City & Regional Magazine Award for the Essay/Commentary. The piece is “Heritage on the Half Shell”, about growing up eating oysters with his dad. It ran in Sarasota Magazine. The other finalists are from Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and the Washingtonian. Link to press release of the finalists. Link to the story. Here is Tony’s article. • Heritage on the Half Shell By Tony D’Souza I FIRST CAME TO FLORIDA the way I imagine many Midwesterners did: as a kid, uncomfortably strapped into the back seat of my parents’ car. We traveled to Longboat Key during the mid-’80s, and I remember those trips as a 10-, 11-, and 12-year-old being filled with mental and physical tests along the lines of what the first monkeys shot into space must have suffered. I’d stare forlornly out my window at the . . .

To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title — and Peace Corps Worldwide, an Amazon Associate, will receive a small remittance that will help support our annual writers awards. • Paradise in Front of Me: Realizing Life’s Beauty in An Unexpected Place by Kevin G. Finch (Honduras 2004–06) Peace Corps Writers $12.95 (paperback) 260 pages January 2014 • Letters Home: A Young Peace Corps Volunteer’s Account of Personal, Cultural, and Bureaucratic Struggles in the ’60s by Carol Sue Bock Gonzalez (Colombia 1960s) CreateSpace $11.95 (paperback) 338 pages April 2013 • Only Bees Die: Peace Corps Eastern Europe (Peace Corps novel) by Robert Keller (Albania 2008–09) Self-Published $10.95 (paperback), $3.99 (Kindle) 206 pages 2010 • Iran: Stories from the Peace Corps by John Krauskopf (Iran 1965–67) Lulu Publisher $20.00 (paperback) 296 pages 2013 • Mr. McSnipper and Other Verses (poetry for . . .