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I just couldn’t play a used flute, and other revelations

Yeah, I’m down with OPP. That’s Other Peoples Perspectives, you pervometer. Oh the humanity. I pretended to be a misanthrope for so long I had almost forgotten that I mostly think people are actually pretty neat. Oh, to be sure there is some sneering and rolling of eyes when I slump here slurping soup scrolling […]

25Jun2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Social Darwinism

In 1858 British naturalist Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Chuck D, published a paper entitled On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type. But since Wallace was remote and isolated far flung in Indonesia, he is all but forgotten to history. If he had been able […]

17Jun2008 | Jillian | 1 comment | Continued
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Generation X-odus

It’s one of those words like palimpsest that I can never remember the meaning of. Every time there is a museum exhibit entitled something like “African Diaspora: a narrative of humanity” I always enter the hushed space expecting some colorful hand made textiles or a collection of amphorae and earthenware goddesses.
Before we dropped out almost […]

6Jun2008 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
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Homesic

Inevitably there are days when an American Living Outside the Continental US (ALOCUS) feels too foreign, too exhausted and frustrated and longs for the familiar flora, fauna and fragrances of home. There are many scenarios, both real and imagined that in my reverie I embellish and elaborate upon.
I am particularly susceptible today to a foreigner’s […]

4Jun2008 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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Jung Americans

“to be free and truly mature we have to separate from culture and society.”
I was well stuck in my Life Before Mexico. And perhaps with perserverence I would have gotten out of that attic apartment and found work that was more meaningful. But honestly I’m not sure.
It was too easy for me to sleep through […]

16May2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Consider Your Bouche Amused

After dropping off the Jeep for another round with Jose Ricardo we were hurrying out of town as usual and realized we had no reason to get back to the beach. Malcolm suggested we stop at the new “Asiatic” restarant in the Blockbuster/Makeup Store plaza that I’d noticed at least a month ago. It was […]

8May2008 | Jillian | 5 comments | Continued
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Welcome to the Gringo House

Sometimes I feel a bit as if we are on display in our office. We’re not in here flinging poop and pleasuring ourselves; we’re just working. Sitting at our workstation, Malcolm at his big boy table and me at my trundle desk, we type, we grimace, we laugh ,we head-scratch, we wait under headphones and […]

25Apr2008 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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Now Soliciting Wedding Photos


25Oct2007 | Malcolm | 0 comments | Continued
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What Are We Doing This Week?


1Oct2007 | Malcolm | 4 comments | Continued
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We’re Alive, Y’all.


21Aug2007 | Malcolm | 15 comments | Continued
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Progress in Chelem


6May2007 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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Telecommunicating When You’ve Dropped In.


12Apr2007 | Malcolm | 1 comment | Continued
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