I suppose there is some value to a conscious incompetence as opposed to a false confidence. But at this point I’ll be happy if I can have a slow conversation with a very patient Nepali.
How little I know
Category: sabbatical
making some lists and checking them twice
Extracting yourself from one life into another is a series of loses, compromises, expectations and fantasies, a process rather than a moment.
And there is a plan B
I have two book ideas, and I expect to get to them eventually. This would be the time if the pandemic continues to rage and the vaccine fails and the world ends.
There is a plan
Any “plan” to work in a developing country has unexpected challenges and complications, more so in a worldwide pandemic.
what is a sabbatical anyway?
In a pandemic year the answers are shifting beneath my feet, even as we make (uncertain) plans for how to use this time for the greatest benefit.
the daysman 