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You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello

I am on a flight from Los Angeles to Hartford as I write this letter. It was only a 48-hour trip. Oddly, saying goodbye to my family this time exacted more stress than usual. That caused me to think a lot about “goodbyes” and about how those of us...

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Volunteer Abroad-It's A Beginning

In last month’s letter, I mentioned Ernest Hemingway and his volunteer work on the front line as a volunteer ambulance driver with AFS. Little did I...

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We Share AFS Roots...We All Do

Last night I watched Fly Boys, a movie about U.S. volunteers traveling to France in 1914 to take part in World War I. It’s a true story about the...

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At The Summit of Pike's Peak

It’s cold. The kind of cold that instantly freezes your wipers to the windscreen. For these wipers to be of any use, I would have to pull off the...

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Make Volunteer Abroad A 2007 Priority

It has been a busy month in planes, trains and automobiles, if you will pardon the movie reference. From its celebrated symbols of patriotism to its...

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Thank You For Volunteering Abroad

At this time of year, the Northeast United States has the “look and feel” of major change. The weather goes from hot and humid to cool and dry....

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