Sunday, November 4, 2012

Age of Steam and Turmoil

Penn's alumnae magazine (which like my current employer, is named The Gazette,) is finally out. The latest  issue is for November and December. I wrote the "Elsewhere" essay, which you can read here. It's a modified version of a story I first wrote for this blog while I was in-country. That story was originally called Sapucai and the Bones of the Trains.

I have since found a couple of stories online published two weeks ago (after my piece had already been turned in) which suggest that the trains might be starting back up again!

I really wish I could be on the ground down there right now to see them actually plying the rails...

NASA Paraguaya

This made my day: a post (in Spanish) about Paraguayans trying to set up the Paraguayan version of NASA. Buried in a post about Paraguay...