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Spinach is not always Spinach

I fell in love with saag paneer and garlic naan in Patiala, Punjab, India in 1976. My mother-in-law prepared the saag paneer with fresh…

Oct 26, 2023

Spinach is not always Spinach

Oct 26, 2023

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Randal Joy Thompson

Coming Full Circle

I ate my final meal of Kontomire and plantains the day before I left Ghana for the last time in September 2023. I was lunching with part of…

Oct 16, 2023

Oct 16, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Changing a Family Tradition

“Randi, Is it ok if I die?” my 53 year old brother Scott asked me quietly as I kept vigil by his bedside after the doctors told him he was…

Jan 13

Jan 13

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Obsession

Forty years after Troy left me, he sent me a photo of himself with a heart monitor strapped to his bare chest and a salacious recounting of…

Dec 26, 2023

Obsession

Dec 26, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

French Repose

I flew from Sarajevo, where I had completed my work on a research project, to Barcelona in October 2015 to attend the International…

Dec 24, 2023

French Repose

Dec 24, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Essaouria

As I walked into the medina in Essaouria, I felt the familiar warmth of the ancient walls welcoming and comforting me, a feeling of being…

Dec 24, 2023

Essaouria

Dec 24, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Bugs

Bugs breeding on me give me the heebie-jeebies. They itch like crazy too, an itch that no amount of scratching can squelch. I never…

Dec 23, 2023

Bugs

Dec 23, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

“All the Lonely People, Where do They All Come From?”[1]

Eleanor Rigby “lives in a dream, waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?” the Beatles…

Dec 19, 2023

Dec 19, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Dinner in Baghdad

Every waking minute of every day is spent praying to stay alive when one is working and living in a war zone. As least this was my…

Dec 19, 2023

Dec 19, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Self-Service or Service Your-Self?

When stores started installing self-checkouts in the late 1980’s, I swore that I would never use them. I refused to work for these…

Sep 10, 2023

Sep 10, 2023

Randal Joy Thompson

Randal Joy Thompson

I like to shine new perspectives on trends in society and also share stories of my adventures in the world, which I have wandered over the last 40 years.

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