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Do you feel imprisoned by life? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Do you feel like you have to put up with the following? 1) Tedious bumper-to-bumper commutes 2) “Mandatory” office meetings that make you want to poke your eyes out 3) Passive aggressive or straigh...
Things I wish I’d known about long-term world travel before I quit my job 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
It's been nine months since Jammie and I quit our jobs to travel the world and do service projects. Nine months provides a lot of perspective. Here's what I wish I knew about world travel back in the ...
A park where you can rest in peace — literally 16 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
When I was little, my siblings and I played this game in a park, “Hot Lava Tag,” where you couldn’t touch the grass (it was the hot lava), and to evade the person who was “It,” you had to hop around o...
Is Edward Snowden Jason Bourne? 12 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
Just how Jason Bourne is Edward Snowden? I'll let you be the judge of that after you read through my super objective list of Bourne/Snowden similarities:
Top 7 ways to be a boring public speaker (compiled from personal experience) 11 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
Bad public speaking is physical torture to listeners. I've done my fair share of it and received a lot of feedback over the years! In the process I've gone from being pretty horrible at speaking in pu...
Service — The Bad 9 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
Let me preface this post by saying that no service project that aims to truly help people is bad — unless by “helping people” that means helping self-interested parties to wider profit margins by taki...
Acid Attack Victims and the Foundations Helping Them 9 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
International volunteering took a huge blow this week with the news that two 18-year old British women were victims of an acid attack in Zanzibar. Two men on a motorbike threw acid in the women’s fac...
Getting rid of (the idea of) second class citizens 8 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
“Fag”. The word was etched into the red brick, an unmistakable manifestation of the hate that was still directed toward gays on the Christian campus where I spent most of my college years. “I’m sorry...
Service — The Good 6 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
Today marks the start of a new chapter in Culturemutt history. My wife, Jammie, joins me as a blogger on the site. Her posts will focus more on our travels and our day-to-day activities. Take it away,...
How to marry a girl that travels 1 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
“Bjorn, you are going to need a very rare kind of girl.” The year was 2000, I was a freshman in college in France. I was getting lectured on women by an older friend. He was right. I had quite the ...
