Yap may be a small island , but there is a lot going on there these days.? ?The Island of Stone Money,? as the place is sometimes called, seems caught up these days in the other kind of money?the green stuff bearing portraits of US presidents.? All week long there have been budget hearings to deal with projected cuts in funding. Read More
It?s hard to explain to others how comforting it is to be uncomfortably hot.? Since I landed on Yap three days ago I?ve been sweating constantly.? What a relief!? It doesn?t hurt that I?ve had a 5 PM basketball game set up every afternoon, courtesy of Dickson Tiwelfil, the young man from Woleai who will entering the Jesuits later this summer.? I knew that I?ve been homesick, despite the wonderful people I?ve worked and recreated with in the US over the past two years, but I never reflected on how Read More