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June | 2016 | lifeafteraid
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Part 2: Development of a different kind. As an aid worker I spent much of the last 30 years thinking about and striving for a vague concept known as ‘community development’. Not my own community mind you, but the communities of Asians, Africans, Balkans, Pacific Islanders and Aboriginal people. Communities that were deemed to be problematic, poor, unempowered and standing in the need of outside assistance. But when it came to our own development, aid worker ambitions generally stretched only as far profe...
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September | 2016 | lifeafteraid
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Seeking Refuge: Nurgul and Baba. My plan was to cross into India at Wagah that unfortunate Punjabi village designated by the British in 1947 as the frontier between India and Pakistan. From there I intended to move steadily eastward to Bengal and Orissa. I had three weeks of holidays and was eager to get out of the Land of the Pure. A week before I left, my boss, a soft-spoken Swiss lawyer, instructed me to book a ticket to Karachi. He filled me in on the details. As for the Chinese, they were exceedingl...
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Top Posts and Pages. The Importance of Being Serious. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 73 other followers. The Trail Provides ॐ. What am I doing here? Edge of Humanity Magazine. The voices buzzing in my head. Three Mistakes that Led to My Success. 4 Things Bebop Taught Me About Change. How I survived my first year outside the Aid Sector. Seeking Refuge: Nurgul and Baba. On Three Mistakes that Led to My….
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April | 2016 | lifeafteraid
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A Friend is gone. R.I.P Teddy Arellano. A dear friend has suddenly passed away. Photo by Teddy Arellano. I woke this morning to read that Teddy Arellano had died. Disbelief rushed through me. How could this be? He was much younger than me. How could this be? Teddy’s death has hit me harder than the others because I knew him. Not just through records and films or. Top Posts and Pages. The Importance of Being Serious. Follow Blog via Email. Join 73 other followers. The Trail Provides ॐ. On Three Mistakes t...
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Defectives | R.M. Donaldson
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5 Reasons I’ve Taken a Blogging Break. February 24, 2016. By R M. Donaldson. Alright guys, I know, I know, I haven’t posted in a long time. I’m SO SORRY! You, my awesome readers, have been patient, and I’m so grateful for you all! So here’s the low-down on what’s been going on. One: I got into college on campus. I was taking online classes, but now I’m most happily taking classes in person on campus here in Idaho, and I’m loving it! So that’s taken up my time and thrown off my schedule. We’ll see h...
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Reviews | R.M. Donaldson
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Dealing with Dragons – By Patricia C. Wrede. March 21, 2016. By R M. Donaldson. And tagged Book Review. Good children fantasy books. Patricia C. Wrede. Fairytales have a simple formula, princess in trouble, prince save princess, right? Not anymore. And Dealing with Dragons does a good job of that. It is clearly written for kids. It isn’t very long, the story and characters aren’t very complicated. For its simplicity, it is a good sweet story. About it, I asked you what you are going to. She decides she g...
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Archery | R.M. Donaldson
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May 3, 2016. By R M. Donaldson. For today’s blog post check out Writing in the Light. To read the post. I’m so excited to share my writings with others. These new friends of mine are amazing! So check it out! Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). View OfficialRMDonaldson’s profile on Facebook. View RealRMDonaldson’s profile on Twitter. Shawn L. Bird.
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Exclusives | R.M. Donaldson
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Which Cover Will It Be? February 27, 2017. By R M. Donaldson. The extended edition of. Is coming ever closer! There is a lot to get done before that. One part of it is deciding what the cover should look like. But I am not planning on making this choice on my own. There will be two or three to choose from. But in order to be apart of the team you need to be signed up to get the e-mail with the voting link. There are a lot of features and exclusives there. So please keep up to date with them! July 27, 2016.
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Road Trip | R.M. Donaldson
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Category Archives: Road Trip. Writer’s Road Trip – Part 3: Pictures to Inspire #WritingPhotos. May 30, 2015. By R M. Donaldson. And tagged book marketing. The view driving back into the Sacramento Valley. This is the last part of the road trip series. It’s not very long, but I hope the small things I learned can help you. Todays is about pictures. I took a lot of pictures, on the trip; I shared a few on Twitter. Though most I took for myself. I got the idea as we were driving. I saw a mountain that w...
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A Little Interview | R.M. Donaldson
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27 April, 1994. Salt Lake City, Utah. Was homeschool K-12 using the Thomas Jefferson Education methods. Attended college classes at Consumes River College and is currently obtaining her Bachelors at Brigham Young University Idaho. I am still single, so no family of my own yet. My parents are happily married. I have three brothers and one sister. My eldest brother has two little girls I adore. She isn’t mine, but I live with one very spunky calico cat who I love to tease. Favorite book you wrote. Click to...
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