November 9, 2022 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Phil Olaleye (Philippines) wins Georgia 59th District seat

Nov 09 2022

Phil grew up in a working class family in Stone Mountain, GA, the son of immigrants. As a youth, Phil had to travel two hours one-way to school each day to receive a decent public education. As soon as he was old enough, Phil began working at Waffle House and Best Buy to help support his single mother and family. These childhood experiences cemented values of sacrifice, dignity in work, and the value of a quality education. Phil attended Duke University as a working student, spending school breaks studying predatory lending policies across Georgia and the Southeast. After working at Citigroup to pay off college loans, Phil left to serve his country in the United States Peace Corps. After three years of supporting an indigenous community in the Philippines, Phil returned to the U.S. to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and organize in the Mississippi Delta (Baptist . . .

A True Love of Literature by Richard Wiley (Korea)

Nov 09 2022

By Richard Wiley (Korea 1967-69) A couple of weeks ago I was invited to (and attended) a book club here in Los Angeles … the oldest book club, I later found out, in a part of L.A. called Westchester, not far from Marina Del Rey and Venice Beach … really just an couple of hour’s hike, if you were in the mood and had good shoes, from the western shores of our continent. So you could go down there and try to find Catalina Island on the horizon (which many of us know is ‘twenty-six miles across the sea’). I was invited to the book club because its members had chosen my own recent novel The Grievers’ Group to read last month, and they had questions. By that I don’t mean questions like “How dare you write about grief? You don’t know grief from shinola!” but well-thought-out, literary-minded questions regarding my collection . . .

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