The Inner Ear

I've started a new blog regarding my experiences with the deaf community here in Nepal. The URL is: deafnepal.blogspot.com. Please check...

For those of you wondering about Melissa and I's experiences in the Langtang Himalaya, I plan to catch up on this soon, and to include p...

Today I stepped into a classroom at the Naxal School for the first time. I was still jubilant from the Obama victory, and a little jittery f...

I spent the morning with several hundred other Americans at Phora Durbar, Kathmandu's American compound, watching the results of the ele...

In our backyard, the radishes and mustard greens are almost ready for the harvest. The autumnal light filters through our bedroom window in ...

For the past four or five days, we've been staying in Dhulikhel, a peaceful Newari town on the edge of the Kathmandu valley. I came up h...

I've heard there are more festivals in Nepal than days of the year, and this past Sunday, we went to Durbar Sqaure to see the Kumari, th...

We've been in Kathmandu for a week now, and we're just beginning to get settled in at our place in Handigaon, which is near the Kris...

It's almost time to go. This entry will hopefully mark a more or less regular return to this blog, under the auspices of my Fulbright ex...