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Read more about the article Risky Business

Risky Business

  • Post published:January 14, 2023
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Another reproduction of a short story I wrote as a student in Nepal-- this one as a 9th grader. I happen to have a copy of it because I still own a copy of the issue of the school magazine in which it was published!

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Read more about the article My Work for the Giant

My Work for the Giant

  • Post published:January 12, 2023
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:8 mins read

Reproduction of a story I wrote as maybe a 7th grader in an on-the-spot short-story writing contest. I reproduce it here because the story won first prize!

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Read more about the article Bro. Joe, The Incomparable Storyteller

Bro. Joe, The Incomparable Storyteller

  • Post published:May 15, 2020
  • Post category:My Personal Stories
  • Reading time:6 mins read

A blog post about my 7th grade English teacher Bro. Joe Sheehan. The amazing storyteller that he was, he fired my imagination and contributed to my "escape" from Kathmandu to see -- and learn about -- the amazing people and world beyond the borders of Nepal. He had a role to play in who I am today.

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Read more about the article Story of How My Old School St. Xavier’s Godavari Was Founded

Story of How My Old School St. Xavier’s Godavari Was Founded

  • Post published:May 15, 2020
  • Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:13 mins read

A fascinating short account of the circumstances and context around -- and the story behind -- the founding of St. Xavier's Godavari School, my old school in Kathmandu, Nepal by the Jesuit Priest Fr. Marshall Moran. The extract comes from a book about the founder.

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Read more about the article Sometimes You Just Can’t Win…and That’s OK

Sometimes You Just Can’t Win…and That’s OK

  • Post published:May 30, 2017
  • Post category:My Personal Stories
  • Reading time:9 mins read

How people are in some respects -- and also how power dynamics -- work don't change with time. Should you suffer in some way because of that, hardly any of it is about you AND as such you can't do anything about it really. And that's ok!

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Read more about the article Raise the Child, NOT the Rod

Raise the Child, NOT the Rod

  • Post published:August 22, 2016
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:13 mins read

Corporal punishments rarely impart any meaningful lesson, and yet, in Nepal, it's defended as part of our "culture." My classmates and I suffered from it too and as far as I can tell, they didn't do much good for us!

What's more, it is possible to educate and raise children without punishing them physically.

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Read more about the article Nepal Education: SLC…Is No TLC

Nepal Education: SLC…Is No TLC

  • Post published:September 22, 2014
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:5 mins read

When a high achieving student from a private school is not assured of the results expected in SLC, what faith can one have on the examination?

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Read more about the article “To Be An Engineer”

“To Be An Engineer”

  • Post published:September 18, 2014
  • Post category:My Personal Stories
  • Reading time:1 min read

My "Senior Biography" entry in the 1986 Jumbo Issue of the Godavarian, our secondary school magazine. It details what I wanted to be and my recollections of the 9 years at St. Xavier's school.

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