Rachel Louise Snyder, author and host of National Public Radio’s “Global Guru” is scheduled to join a panel discussion on writers in radio at the annual AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
Happy Birthday Mary Todd, Britney, and Sun!
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/happy-birthday-mary-todd-britney-and-s/
December is a big month for birthdays. Christians all over the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazerath, the US mint is commemorating the 192nd birthday of Mary Todd Lincoln with a ...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/all-night-long-in-tehran/
I remember the first time I saw the tarantella danced. I was living in Urbino, Italy, and Stephano, my hyperactive Italian neighbor from the South, decided to demonstrate the traditional Italian ...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/the-global-guru-gets-bitten/
Ah, Oxford. Just saying the name of this eminent University City brings to mind highbrowed English professors and literary greats. The mind’s eye conjures up images of stately old buildings and...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/the-global-guru-goes-punting/
I love the fall. It is the time of year when leaves turn from pleasant greens to vibrant reds; when wearing multiple layers of clothing is weather appropriate; and, when bonfires, smore’s and s...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/the-global-guru-and-the-ties-that-bind/
Worshipping with Karni Mata’s finest. Photo here. I’ve always considered myself an animal lover. When I was 12, we had to put down my beloved hamster, Winnie, after he grew a neck tumour the ...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/i-smell-a-rat/
On 31 May, the PBS News Hour aired the first of a three-part global health report on China. Coinciding with the World Health Organization’s “World No Tobacco Day,” the first report focused ...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/the-global-guru-talks-china-cigarettes/
Sacred. The dictionary defines it as something that is “devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.” That’s a fine definition except that it doesn’t quite c...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/conflict-resolution-timor-leste-style/
The thing everyone seems to want to know when you talk about learning to open champagne with a sword – the French art of sabrage, which is more or less around the world now—is how sharp the s...
https://globalgururadio.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/champagne-and-swords/