https://nearandfar.blog/pages/ Recent content in Pages on Near and Far Hugo en-us Sat, 16 Sep 2023 16:11:00 +0000 https://nearandfar.blog/near-and-far-updraft-central/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 16:11:00 +0000 https://nearandfar.blog/near-and-far-updraft-central/ <p>[updraft_central]</p> https://nearandfar.blog/updatedash/ Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:37:28 +0000 https://nearandfar.blog/updatedash/ <p>: [updraft_central]</p> https://nearandfar.blog/friends/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:10:40 +0000 https://nearandfar.blog/friends/ <p>Hi Friend!</p> <p>Do you know any of my friends? Maybe you want to become friends with them as well?</p> <p>I have connected with my friends using <strong>WordPress</strong> and the <strong>Friends plugin</strong>. This means I can share private posts with just my friends while keeping my data under control. If you also have a WordPress site with the friends plugin, you can send me a friend request. If not, get your own <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> now, install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends/">Friends plugin</a>, and follow me!</p> https://nearandfar.blog/about/ Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:33:03 +0000 https://nearandfar.blog/about/ <p>I first went to Morocco as a Peace Corps Volunteer in from 1988 to 1990, where I received a warm welcome as a high school English teacher in the village of Outat El Haj.</p> <p><img src="https://nearandfar.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lycee-al-morabitine.png" alt=""></p> <p>Over the summer, I escaped the desert to work at an orphanage in Casablanca.</p> <p><img src="https://nearandfar.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/orphanage-low-res.png" alt=""></p> <p>I attribute my enduring love for Morocco and its people to the two years I spent there, and the many I have spent learning more about the country since. Some years ago, I launched an experiment to see if I could follow Moroccan affairs from the United States, with indifferent success. The result was <a href="http://www.williamsonday.net/morocco">thé à la menthe</a>.</p>