I’m happy to announce that we have added two great new premium themes to our ever-expanding Theme Showcase! First up is Anthem – a responsive, minimal design from The Theme Foundry. Anthem is perfect for artists, designers, and photographers who want their images to take center stage. Choose from seven different post formats to give [...]
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We’re excited to share some new features that will make it even faster to create content on your WordPress.com site. Drag & Drop Uploads The media uploader now supports drag and drop! You’ll be able to use the new drag and drop media uploader wherever you need to upload your media files – while writing [...]
We’ve made two big changes that make it easier to encourage friends, family, and colleagues to interact with your WordPress.com blog. First, now you can invite people to follow your blog. If your blog is public, anyone can use the Follow button to sign up to receive an update each time you publish new content. [...]
According to David McRaney, “You may think that you’re a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. But you’re as deluded as the rest of us, and that’s OK, because it keeps you sane.” David is a journalist and the creator of the WordPress.com blog You Are Not So Smart, which [...]
I’m happy to announce that we’ve added another group of three new themes to our collection today. Each one has its own distinct personality but they do share one thing in common: they’re all awesome themes that I know you’ll love. Let’s check them out. The first up is Photography, a premium theme designed by [...]
Photo galleries on WordPress.com are a great way to share the pictures you’ve taken with your friends, family, and your followers. But the design of your theme can limit how large your high-resolution photos are displayed. Today, we’re announcing a great new way to make the most of your photos: a full-size carousel view that [...]
Your blog lives and breathes. Today we’re launching a new way for you to check its pulse. It’s called Notifications, and it lives in the right corner of your Toolbar (Admin Bar), which appears at the top of your screen while you’re logged in to WordPress.com. Whenever another WordPress.com user follows your blog, or likes [...]
There’s a good chance that visitors to your site these days will be using a smartphone. We feel it’s important to provide them with a great reading experience while on the small screen, so today we’re announcing a new mobile theme: ‘Minileven’. Minileven is based on the popular and beautiful theme Twenty Eleven, with a [...]
Introduce a hint of wonderment into your blog with our latest free theme! This is your invitation to take an enchanting voyage to a Strange Little Town. Our latest release is designed to transport your readers to a magical place where imagination fills the air. Nestled below a star-studded sky you will find a cluster [...]
If you are doing a great job on your blog and posting regularly, sometimes important posts fade away from the home page. Sound familiar? Today, we’re excited about introducing two new themes that come with a featured section for prominently displaying some of these posts. The first theme is iTheme 2 designed by Themify, is [...]
I’m home! It’s hard to write this post and know exactly what to say. I’m sad, relieved, overwhelmed, and so happy to be back, all at the same time. The long story short is that I was “medically separated”. The difference between being medically separated and resigning is that the decision to come home, though [...]
There are few things I find more enjoyable on a Saturday afternoon than a good chicken salad sandwich. Plain, on wheat toast. On a hearty whole grain with mayonnaise, pesto, lettuce, tomatoes, mozzarella, and salt and pepper. Or, if it’s the right kind of chicken salad, on a fresh baguette with bacon, American cheese, and [...]
(N.B. Throughout this blog I will refer to my town as “Camembert”. Peace Corps policy prevents us from disclosing our exact location for security reasons. For those of you who know the name of my town, please forgive the “cheesy” moniker. The mailing address listed on the blog is still accurate, however will take a [...]
My first few weeks at site have been far more productive than I anticipated. I expected to spend the first few months, if not all of my service, convincing people to work with me. I thought much of my time would be spent earning the trust of community members in order to encourage trying new [...]
It is significantly hotter in Camembert than it was in Mantasoa. Some days, the combination of heat and humidity create such a level of discomfort that I have self-indulgent daymares about having been transported to the sticky, melted middle of Dali’s Persistencia de Memoria. I half expect my watch to slither off my wrist and [...]
Tanjona Kely 1 (Small Goal)
Google, Wikipedia, and learn about Moringa. Learn about this miracle tree and why it is worth attention. One of my upcoming projects (and upcoming blog posts) will be all about its impressive qualities.
Tanjona Kely 2
Make yourself some Malagasy street food. Get a taste of some of the yummy aspects of Malagasy [...]
(Written on January 10, 2010)
On Monday, I moved in with my host family, the Razakafidy family. My father and mother, Bruno and Marlene, are farmers, and their two daughters, Brigina and Olivia, are students at the school adjacent to our home. My mother and father are quiet and reserved, but genuinely friendly and [...]
This is the first of a series of posts I will make about ways you can get involved at home. Ways you can take the lessons I am learning and adapt them to ways that are relevant and useful to wherever you are living and whatever you are doing. The section may suggest [...]
I arrived safely in Madagascar on December 8, 2009, and so much has changed that I do not know where to begin. Niger still occupies a large place in my heart and mind. The predictable and unavoidable comparisons with Madagascar come with a heavy serving of nostalgia-glazed guilt for allowing my mind to [...]
This is my little brother/cousin Kabirou. Once I got over my phobia of germy kid hands, I learned to love his typical three-year-old kid need to touch everything. He loved my fly swatter, my lock and key, my flashlight, and just about anything else I touched on a regular basis.
In spite of my phobia and [...]
I will fill you in on some of my life in Niger. Though it was just about seven weeks, it feels like I am trying to convey a year’s worth of experiences. I hardly know where to begin or what to include. I am just going to cover the basics of my daily life, and [...]
For my first blog post from Niger I had planned to talk about how much I love the country and my experience with the Peace Corps thus far. That the people are warm, generous, and open. That the culture is beautiful and complex. That the poverty is heartbreaking. That the joys [...]
Today, October 20, I left for King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, for my first step on my Peace Corps adventure, Staging. Out of the 42 of us who were scheduled to be here, 39 have shown up. And this is only the first step. Tomorrow we leave for Philadelphia for vaccinations at 9 [...]
While I welcome emails, blog comments, and facebook messages, without consistent internet access, I would thoroughly love to receive letters. I have a feeling they will keep me sane, and I would love to hear how you are doing, what you are doing, and if anything has changed (personally, or generally) stateside. And [...]
So, what’s up with the blog title? What do I mean by saying I am at the bottom?
Well, it’s official. Niger is the worst place to live in the world, ranking at the very bottom of the UN Human Development Index.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33178495/ns/world_news/
I begin this account of my experiences with equal amounts of enthusiasm and anxiety. I look forward to being someone else’s eyes, ears, and hands, in a place that is truly foreign to most of the world. I look forward to the challenge of writing something that leaves out the parts that readers skip [...]
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