Michael Salinger

Universal soup post #! or For the Love of Pho

2017-04-07T08:47:00.005-04:00

I am currently reading two non-fiction books. One called Sapiens about the development and success of Homo Sapiens and another called I Contain Multitudes about the relationship between people and microorganisms. I am also thinking about a poem I am going to write about Vietnamese soup. So how do these three seemingly disparate texts relate to one and another? Surprisingly well if one

Here we go again!

2015-08-24T10:58:00.002-04:00

Well Summer is winding down - we've already got our first school visit of the year in the books - Chardon Middle, right down the road from our house. In the small world department - the assistant principal there is the nephew of our dear international teaching friends Diane and John Salminen who are now in Nansha, China where we have worked with them twice - as well as in Jakarta and Abu

Absentee landowners suck

2015-06-19T13:34:00.000-04:00

So I live in a fairly quiet little neighborhood in Mentor Ohio. Middle class nothing too pretentious - but we're not parking cars on blocks on our street either. For the most part our neighbors keep up their yards and houses - like I said - there are no homeowner association police telling you what color your door has to be or measuring your lawn height. Of course you have your

Getting into the flow with Johnny Ngo

2015-04-08T03:20:00.001-04:00