This past weekend, Kim and I and a few friends headed off to Orissa. Caitlin works for a non-profit organization (NGO) that feeds malnourished children in rural India. Basically they take very poor children who are dangerously underweight for their age and feed them a highly nutritious liquid food supplement that fattens them up. She fattens kids up for about $8 each, if you would like to pitch in. Tina works for a non-profit that identifies entrepreneurs working in businesses that have lasting long-term positive effects on large groups of people. They help these entrepreneur [View Full Entry]

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Our flight from Los Angeles to Newark was delayed so we missed our connection to Delhi. We took the train to New York City to take advantage of the unexpected 24 hour layover. We went sight seeing in Manhattan at Soho, the Village, Times Square, Little Italy, and Central Park. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. [View Full Entry]

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Before returning to India, we made a stop in Northern California where most of my direct family lives. We visited my mother Margaret for a few days in San Jose where she lives with her roommate Debbie. My sister Peggy also lives in San Jose with her boyfriend Ray and her son’s Frank and Joe. Peggy gave a Saint Patrick’s Day party to celebrate our visit and she invited our family and many friends from childhood. My sister Jenny showed up with her husband Dave and her son Keagan. My father Dave showed up with his wife Jan and his grand-daughter [View Full Entry]

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We went to Texas to meet Kim’s family. Kim has two brothers, Frank and Tony. Frank is married to Dominica and they have two kids, Julia and Griffin. Tony is married to Leslie and they also have two kid’s Megan and Katie. Kim’s father Jim and step-mother Laura along with Tony and his family, visited us at Frank’s house in Fort Worth, Texas. We next visited Kim’s mother Margaret and her step-father Robert in Denton, Texas. While we were at Margaret’s house, Kim’s aunt Connie, Uncle Dave and her grandmother stopped by to visit with us. We a [View Full Entry]

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The second stop on our US tour was Park City, Utah. I was married in the 90s to a woman named Nicole who had two children when we met. The marriage was a package deal. Those two children Jeremy and Tarryn are grown now and I have remained in contact with them after Nicole and I divorced in 2001. Jeremy is 26 years old and Tarryn is 24. Tarryn was almost three years old when I met her mother. Tarryn married a man named Daniel before I moved to India and now they live in Utah with their two children named [View Full Entry]

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I completed the 2 year contract I had with CPA Global and they asked me to stay another year. I hadn’t seen my family during the last two years so I asked for a month of unpaid leave before starting my third year in India. Kim and I decided to visit each other’s Families and Friends during the month off. We decided to spend the first week in Portland. Kim and I met in Portland and we both lived there several years before we met and moved to India. We stayed at Le Pension in the Hawthorne district of Portland. Le [View Full Entry]

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In December of 2007, the executive leadership team for CPA Global (India) went to Goa to conduct a workshop which turned out to be a defining experience for our management team. The workshop was facilitated by Anand David of Manford and we remain empowered significantly by our experience with Anand. This year we decided to take that momentum to the next level and it was a natural choice to bring Anand back. Our organization grew significantly since our prior encounter with Manford. This year, the workshop aligned the passions of purpose in the minds of our growing executive management [View Full Entry]

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Kim and I will be in the USA for 5 weeks starting February 15th, 2009. We hope to see many of you then. Here are the dates we will be in various cities at that time. Please let us know if you will be in any of these cities at these times and we will do our best to see you. Here is my USA cell phone number during our stay there: 503-740-2499. Portland, Oregon, USA: Feb 16 to Feb 23, 2009 Seattle, Washington, USA: Feb 23 to Feb 27, 2009 Salt Lake City: Feb 28 to Mar 5, 2009 Texas: [View Full Entry]

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Jesse, Nicole, Vrinda, Kim, and I headed up to Gulmarg in Kashmir for India's Republic Day Weekend. Upon arrival we had a late lunch at the Global Hotel restaurant. The food was decent and it felt like we were in a 1960s style Hookah Bar. There were a few foreigners running the place that had given up chasing the almighty dollar and decided to be ski bums. They put us up in rooms that cost Rs 1000 ($20.00) per night, food was about Rs 250 per meal ($5), and the gondola was Rs 150 per run ($3). If you eat three [View Full Entry]

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We spent 4 days in Auckland and surrounding areas between Christmas and New Years. Great place. The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with over 1.3 million residents, 31 percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest of the country. Increasingly cosmopolitan, Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world. It is a conurbation, made up of Auckland City (excluding the Hauraki [View Full Entry]

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