This website is a collection of my stories. They are stories from my life, and stories about Peace Corps in Africa, where I was a woodworking teacher in a high school, and of my adventures in Mexico where for 20 years, I mentored teenage girls, and paid their school fees, and tried to teach them how to take charge of their own life, and get thru school without getting pregnant. Some of them are just my stories about me. It mostly began in Africa, where I ran into kids that just needed a little confidence, and patience, to start to take control of their lives. Later, when I started running the projects in Mexico, I encountered kids there who could benefit from a little mentoring. Tho the subjects of my stories are random, I try to make them interesting and often funny. I hope you enjoy them. Forgive me that right now they are just a mixed list of stories, mostly in the order that I wrote them. I hope to go through them and organize them into similar groups of themes. But for now, I am concentrating on getting them written.
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Born in the Paleolithic Era, someplace cold. Lives in Austin, Texas Y’all
Latest Posts
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Five, What Ever Happened to Katie, For Whom Casa de Katie Was Named?
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Four. The Power of Believing In Your… Mission
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Three. The Coming of the Casa
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Two. With a Little Money and a Handful of Volunteers, You Can Accomplish Miracles in Two Days
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part One, The Beginning
- Elizabeths Weddings
- My Swazi Sister Elizabeth, and Her Marriage Dowry
- How I Found My Career
After Peace Corps
- The Story That I Forgot To Put In Chapter Two
- Apres Le Peace Corps, Chapter 1
- Apres le Peace Corps, Chapter 2
- Après Le Peace Corps, Chapter 3
- Apres Le Peace Corps, Chapter 4
- Apres Le Peace Corps, Chapter 5
Mexico
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Four. The Power of Believing In Your… Mission
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Three. The Coming of the Casa
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Two. With a Little Money and a Handful of Volunteers, You Can Accomplish Miracles in Two Days
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part One, The Beginning
- Hop Dogs Are For The Night, Samuel
- A Good Man
- Guns Over Rio Bravo
- The Amazing Weekend of a Chico Afortunado
- My Last Experience With Victorias Secret Undies
- Truth
- Victorias Secret Undies
- How I Became a Padrino
- The Parade
- The Skinniest Pig in All of Mexico
Love
- The Woods Ahead Are Dark and Deep
- The Monkees, red light bulbs, and first love…
- Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang
- Happy Birthday to My Favorite Sister
- Never Hesitate, Ever
- Morning With Jenny
- Happy Birthday Jenny
- Trying To Get My life Going Again
- Jenny
Peace Corps
- Elizabeths Weddings
- My Swazi Sister Elizabeth, and Her Marriage Dowry
- Getting Girls to Take My Woodworking Class
- Brief Windows Into My First Months In The Peace Corps and Swaziland
- The Big Torch
- The Amazing Check
- Camping Among Wild Animals
- My Nerve Wracking Day in Swazi National Court
- Serendipity
- Serendipity Two
- Negative Serendipity
- How Long Can You Hold Your Breath?
- Normas Kitchen
- Speaking of Breasts
- Water
- Regarding Beer, Photos, Warm Coke, and Other Unrelated Things
- Excerpts From Letters to My Sister, with Deep Philosophical Revelations
- Calling Down the Lightning Into My Fists
- The Witch Doctor School
- Climbing Sibebe
- A Christmases Story
- Twice Bitten
- An Icky Story
- The Magic Stick
- The Day My Face Became Purple
- I Am Unable To Hit A Child
- My Going Away Braai
- Hoe Dee Ull
- Skin is some really tough stuff
- White folks can’t dance
- The Biggest Snake, ever!
- Books. Don’t leave home without them.
- Your hair really does stand on end!
- Wood Looking.
- Tools. What useful things to have.
- The Stool
- The Jewelry Box
- It say so in the Byebell
- The Kindness lesson
- The Boy Scout Camporee
- Some of my students at the Annual Reed Dance ceremony
- Sams Survival Session
- His Angel is On Him
- Step Outside of Your Comfort Zone
- The Adventures of Slightly-Taller-Than-Average Man
- Community Justice
- Oh, Sam, Every woman in Swaziland knows you are safe
- The Owl
- Women Matter
People
- The Saga of Casa de Katie, Part Five, What Ever Happened to Katie, For Whom Casa de Katie Was Named?
- Mary
- Empty Vessels
- The Red Dress
- I Gave Her My Shirt
- Sophie
- The Best Houseguest
- The Price of Freedom
- Trying To Be A Nice Guy
- The Canoe Trip
- The Son That I Never Had
- Ncamsile and the Chocolate Pudding
- My First Cooking Experience And Fatality
- The Very Brave Girl Who Was My First Girlfriend
- The Secret Sides of Sam
- Me And Dave
- Alicia, the long version.
- Maybe It Was The Word “Babe”
- Persons in Black
- Energy Manifest
- Sabelo’s Guitar
- On the veracity of my stories…
- Rejoice
- BobMarley
- Lomkhuleko and The Fine Coffee Table
- A Very Short Story
- I Want to Be a Nurse
- Oh, Maseko, this is the best part of the cattle
- Lisa
Africa
Jobs
- How I Found My Career
- When we get back to the dock, I will totally Spank You on the Bare Hiney
- The Maine Job
- A Magical Lesson Every Homeowner Needs
- The Cincinnati Job
Cancer
- Cardio Rehab, How Do I Love Thee?
- I Just Stopped In To See What Condition My Condition Is In, #2
- On What It Is Like To Be A Eunuch
- I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Is In
- I Hate My Bed
- 9 weeks of scary
- My Condition
Sundry Things
- The Epiphanic Cake of a New World Paradigm
- My Dad Was Nuts, But He Was My Dad
- My Dad Was Nuts
- The Woods Ahead Are Dark and Deep
- I Must Be Tripping
- Random Thoughts From Which My House of Cards Is Built
- Every Day an Amazing Gift
- Trauma At The Grocery Store
- The Devil Weed
- The Story Of I. (eye)
- The Dumbest Dream
- The S.W.A.G Method
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