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Relocation to France
To my dear students and colleagues and friends, I am happy to report that our relocation to France is now ‘completed’ (July 2024). It is my hope that my EUCLID (and EULER) work will be greatly facilitated by this major professional relocation from Northern California to France. From an ecclesiastical perspective, I was officially released […]
Global Health Delivery Certificate (Harvard)
An 11-week program, high caliber, worthy (in my view) of the Harvard brand. https://pll.harvard.edu/course/global-health-delivery?delta=5
PhD in Public Health (UCN)
My review: I completed my PhD (or Ph.D.) in Public Health at the Universidad Central de Nicaragua (UCN) in 2022, after almost 4 years of reasonably difficult studies (it so happens that my sister-in-law is from Nicaragua and that I was raised bilingual French and Spanish). This was, after all, a 96-credit program with the […]
Kiev or Kyiv, or Kiev and Kyiv
Sometimes, we try to make everybody happy, hoping to use Solomonic wisdom to find a ‘fair middle,’ but at the risk of making everyone unhappy. Sadly, moderation is not the virtue it used to be… When it comes to the raging debate over Kiev or Kyiv (there was even an official Ukrainian campaign called kyivnotkiev […]
Africa / Central African Republic
I almost cannot recall not being fascinated by the great continent of Africa. My first exposure was to Niger when I was 8 years old, and ever since I have wanted to be a part of African renaissance and history. Growing up in France, it seemed that there was an “ancestral” bond between being French […]
Youth Without Age and Life Without Death
Once upon a time something happened whose like never occurred before—if it had not happened it would not be told—since the flea had one foot shod with ninety-nine pounds of iron and jumped into the skies to get us fairy tales. There was once a mighty emperor and empress. Both were young and handsome, and […]
In Memoriam: Archbishop Vsevolod of Scopelos
I had the privilege to know – and be ordained – by the late Archbishop Vsevolod of Scopelos of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. I met him for the first time in New Jersey at the UOC-USA headquarters when I was studying at St Tikhon’s. A […]
Reflections on the Best Form of Government: Monarchy and Democracy
A friend recently mentioned his growing sympathy for monarchy as a source of stability and unity in a chaotic and disunited world. He has in mind a specific king in a specific country, so this may be the problem on hand: monarchy (in the traditional European sense) = lottery, with potentially disastrous results. Ultimately, a […]