Category: MayaCREW
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 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...
Kids of Xepocol
In retrospect, one of the ironies of my life is that although as a kid or young adult I never had any desire to work with children, I have spent most of my adult life working with...
Despedidos at the ACEBAR Office
My professional family in Chichi. No finer bunch of people anywhere, and I can very honestly say I’ve never worked with a more committed, dependable, compassionate, honest, and accountable group. When I first get...
Two Days in Chicua III
So I’m in a room at my usual little hideout, The Spring Hotel, in something-less-than-sublime Guatemala City. Nice here, and there’s hardly any guests so far, so it’s extraordinarily quiet. Of course it has...
Outback Medicine – The Rotation Begins with a BANG in Canton Xepocol
So the first day of the clinic began with a bang – 101 patients between the 3 docs – in the far-flung canton (Spanish for “precinct,” but in Chichi a small village) of Xepocol....
The February 2017 University of Texas PA Program Rotation Begins
Well, as always I’m slow to get things posted to the blog. But better late than never, I suppose. Anyway, the two new students arrived on Sunday, February 5, just a tad later in...
Independence Day (Sept 15) at Plaza Mayor in Guatemala City
September 16 – 7:30 PM: At the moment, I’m sitting in my armchair in our little apartment in Chichicastenango, where we arrived a few hours ago, having been picked up at the Spring Hotel in...
Best Birthday Present Ever
Finding this on Facebook was probably the best birthday present I ever received, as I wrote in June 2015 on the Facebook post. I remain truly thankful to my friends in Guatemala for producing this lovely...
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