Travel with a Cause: In the Field with East Meets West
Vietnam’s Coffee Culture (Not a Starbucks in Sight)
It’s Sunday morning and I’m hanging out, sipping my latte, and reading the International Herald Tribune at one of the Gloria Jean’s Coffee outlets in Saigon. The scene is familiar if you’re a coffee buff. There are some small tables and there are groupings of other more comfortable chairs in the corners of this fresh, [...]
Sunday, October 18, 2009 1:10:52 PM
Living Globally
If there was any doubt in my mind that we live in an interconnected global society, today would have expelled it. I woke up at 6am and turned on KPLU-FM, my local NPR station at home in Seattle. Here, it is streamed live and I get it via the website. At 6am here it is [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009 1:36:21 PM
The Skyline Tells a Story
America was wrong about Vietnam in 1965. Now, no one seriously disputes the idea that the “American War” was a battle for independence. It was a civil war, but at the time American leadership was obsessed with the idea that the dominos would fall and all of Asia would be dominated by Mao and the [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009 1:37:57 PM
They Are the Same the World Over
It doesn’t seem to matter where you are; a small group of drunks can poison the atmosphere of a place for everyone. Whether it’s a bar on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, an Upper East Side hangout in New York, a Berlin kneipe, or the Rooftop Bar in Saigon the effect is the same; it [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:38:46 PM
A Hard Dirt Floor and a Table with a Light
Today I visited one of the elementary schools where EMW provides scholarships to poor students. It was a modern, for this part of the world, school with attentive students and teachers. There are 800 students in the school, but only 34 of them are in the SPELL (Scholarship Program to Enhance Literacy and Learning) program. [...]
Friday, October 09, 2009 1:43:25 PM
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