May 24, 2018 Every three or four days I encounter a lone bat.  Tonight, my final night in Samoa this time around, a bat sailed silently overhead just as I was getting in my car to send out this last writing. 

May 18, 2018 Nearly every morning that I step out of the Pago Inn, one gentleman connected with the hotel (though I am not completely aware how) calls out, “Good Morning, Daniel!” We’ve never been formally introduced and it always seems

May 13, 2018 I’ve probably spent only 6 -10 days in my office during 2018. Part of that stems from my school-based work—in classrooms most of the day most days. Most of that results from traveling off-island so frequently, from neighbor

April 9, 2018 You are never so much an individual as you are a community.  That's a line of dialog from my current play.  I wrote it with an intellectual sense of how it applies to the community I am writing about.  Visiting Pohnpei

April 4, 2018 A storyteller I once interviewed on the island of Ujae said, "Listen to the other side of the story." Too often I (we?) enter a story (our own story?) with preconceived expectations and miss deeper or richer experiences

March 29, 2018 "Those civilized might take a lesson from the humanity of these people to the shipwrecked." James F. O'Connell, 1836 Although I have not suffered a shipwreck, I do feel a bit adrift here in Pohnpei. I made the trip

From the Scottish Journal of Performance Volume 2, Issue 1 I would highly recommend this text to teaching artists working in the drama/theatre field. The authors acknowledge their use of both ‘drama’ and ‘theatre’ in their title and justify their inclusion of

November 27, 2009 From Carol T. Jones, Director, Alliance Theatre Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists 'The growing number of students for whom English is a second language creates new challenges for our teachers and schools. However, it also creates opportunities for