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Boudreaux’s Video Postcard: Syria

On headlamps and life

“Sometimes you just have to put on your Petzl, look deep inside your own cave, remove a few rocks and find a path. . .” –Michael Boudreaux, July, 2007

GOTV

“But we must think of the long-term results,” I insisted. “Even if they’re not informed, they will serve as a model for the future leaders of America, encouraging them to think about their responsibility to vote and prompting more CNN and less VH1.” “No,” says Michael. “I can’t support this. Why would I want people [...]

A Different Rabbit Hole

The other day, Michael said to me: “Who are you and what are you still doing here?” Like he remembered me from a party back in 1998 and just realized I’d never gone home. He was kidding, of course. But metaphorically, he was catching a glimpse of me from another angle, almost as if he [...]

Please admire. . .

the graphically fabuloso work of my husband on our NEW MASTHEAD! Photos and fade-outs and maps and even navigation. I must admit, nobody would get to read my postings without his technical help. He has done it all. Set up this blog. Transferred our old posts. Organized a directory. Inserted Flickr photos. .and now this [...]

Brush With Fame

Did I tell you? I’m living with a movie star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His name is Michael Boudreaux and he just had his big debut–hopefully you caught it. . . But then. There was another one. When I was in Istanbul, I realized that my husband’s mother’s best friend’s traveling companion has a sister who is married to [...]

Living in the Present Tip #572

My yoga teacher said this morning, that according to buddhism, if you are not in the present, you are nowhere, lost in the past of the future. And in either case, you’re missing right now. This is nothing new, but I love to hear it again and again. It is, perhaps, no definitely, the most [...]

The Athens Classic Marathon

The Athens Classic Marathon isn’t just a marathon. It’s THE marathon. The closely related ancestor of this course was a cornerstone of the ancient Olympic Games held in the 5th century BC. This exact course was used in the original modern Olympic Games in 1896 and the most recent Olympics in 2004. According to legend, [...]

Sofia Scoop

  Hello readers! Thanks for visiting. Did you know? Our own PCV Boudreaux was recently featured in a very hot, artsy and fashionable Bulgarian magazine called Intro. Full page photo and interview! It’s pretty cool. My apologies about the lack of blogs right now. I’m working on three different ones, so stay tuned. In the [...]