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To Shake the Sleeping Self 3/7/2021
Reading time: 5 minutes
Hesitation
I admit it.
My patience for Christians is short. I therefore harbored misgivings about To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins - a story in which the author rides a bike 14,0...
Adrift 2/25/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
Shift those expectations
The author is not lost.
The back cover copy even says so: "Meet Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu: self-professed travel enthusiast. (...) She is not lost. She is not queuing up to...
The Sex Lives of Cannibals 2/17/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
Paradise...?
It sounds incredible.
In the mid 1990s, J. Maarten Troost's girlfriend Sylvia is offered a job on the atoll of Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, an island nation in the middle of the...
Confronting Insanity 11/30/2020
Reading time: 4 minutes
My knowledge of North Korea is thin.
Even I know that as insane as the regime can be, no one within its borders will openly criticize it. Unfortunately, the host of Michael Palin in North Korea t...
Postcard: Yellowstone 11/17/2020
Reading time: 3 minutes
In September, 2019, we took a trip out west.
Our vacation consisted of stops in: Salt Lake City, UT, Blackfoot, ID, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho Falls, ID, Arco, ID and Craters-of-the-Moon Na...