I’m a journalist on hiatus in the Peace Corps. My assignment is information and communications technology in the Samaná province of the Dominican Republic. My service runs from March 2008 to May 2010. You can reach me at steph.garry(at)gmail.com.
The latest
- A drug helps obese rhesus monkeys lose weight. jpost.com/Health/Article… #envt From Twitter 6 months ago
- RT @MarkLGoldberg fact of the day: 65% of the world's pop. live in countries where overweight & obesity kill more ppl than underweight #envt From Twitter 6 months ago
- RT @oxfam That 300K children in the #Sahel die of malnutrition-related causes in a ‘normal’ yr is a scandal" oxf.am/o4n #envt From Twitter 6 months ago
- Jersey Shore star slims down. usmagazine.com/celebrity-body… #envt From Twitter 6 months ago
- My friends this week were debating the term "thick" used to describe women - is it overweight, curvaceous, indefinite? #envt From Twitter 6 months ago
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Books I´ve read in the DR
Trujillo: The Death of the Goat - Bernard Diedrich
Cuentos Escritos en el Exilio - Juan Bosch
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julie Alvarez
What is the What - Dave Eggers
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Amor en los Tiempos de Cólera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Laughter in the Darkness - Nabokov
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Portnoy´s Complaint - Philip Roth
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
Lolita - Nabokov
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
Fried Green Tomatoes in the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
Three Cups of Tea - David Relin (about Greg Mortensen)
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs
The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier
The Road to Hell - Michael Maren
Werewolves in Their Youth - Michael Chabon
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Armaggedon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut
