Author: ChichiMax
And the Winner of Acebar’s First Shining Star Award is …
Margarita Panjoj Tebelan!!! ¡Felicidades Margarita! ¡Gracias por tu arduo trabajo y logros! And why, from among Acebar’s 250 scholarship recipients, did Acebar Directors decide that she deserves this special recognition? Because she is a...
The New Yorker Series on Guatemalan Emigration
The New Yorker recently (March and April 2019) published a series of three very good articles for The New Yorker by Jonathan Blitzer (no easily discoverable immediate relation to Wolf). I can vouch for...
2018 TCOM National Conference Presentation: “Taking TCOM to the Maya”
Attached here is the powerpoint I used for my presentation at the Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) National Conference in Chicago on 4 Oct 2018. It reflects the research and analysis done by me...
Culture and Practice: What’s in a name?
A number of years back there was lots of discussion – I think it may have originated in nursing scholarship – about the need for practitioners to develop “cultural competence.” At the time I...
A kid walks into foster care …
Apropos to absolutely nothing, I was reminded today during a conversation with one of the social workers on my staff of a 14 y/o boy I worked with several years ago. This kid –...
Último Tango en Xela (para mi, so to speak)
So here I am with Patricia and Julie, the 2 preceptors, and Holly, Megan, and Charlotte, the 3 UTMB PA students, in Quetzaltenango. This is Guatemala’s second city, although with a population of only...
Let the Rotation Begin!
The March 2018 University of Texas Medical Branch PA School clinical rotation has begun! And with us this time we have Megan Runge, Charlotte Peeters, and Holly Matthews. We (or at least “they”) will...
the MayaCREW Annual Appeal
Happy Holidays to all my friends! … I hope you all are in the first days of the merriest and most rewarding Holiday Seasons ever. As for Mary and me, we’re going to hunker...
Chichicastenango Celebrates: Introduction to the annotated photo collection book
In 2012 I bought a Groupon for a photobook. As I remember it, the coupon was good for 120 days after purchase, and at about the 115 day mark I suddenly found myself with...
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