About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
American Road Trip 1: North Dakota to Glacier
Day Five: Minot, ND, to Chester, MT It's hard to imagine just how big the American agricultural machine really is. Knowing that I am only scratching the northern tip of flax, corn, and cattle country, this day has been (until its end) an exercise in open sky and broad...
American Road Trip 1 : Porcupine Mtns to North Dakota
Day Three: Porcupine Mountains to Chippewa Nat'l Forest Early morning is probably the best time to visit the three falls along the river here. Again, eerily, no one is on these trails—outside of the occasional wooden post suggesting a marker, I can easily imagine...
American Road Trip 1: Grass Lake to the Porcupines
Day One: Grass Lake to Hiawatha Driving north through Michigan's lower peninsula is largely routine for too many of us trolls (what the Yoopers call residents of the lower state). The occasional construction zone, the intermittent shower which grays out the...
Savita
Savita must carefully unpack her single school uniform from her tattered backpack each morning at 5:00 am, one of the only places she may keep the cotton blouse, tie, and gray wool skirt clean after she has scrubbed it and aired it dry each night. She is any student...
A New Caste System
One week in Nepal and I can’t help but think of words like inequity, justice, and literacy. As Murari mentioned to me at lunch today, there is a new caste system coming to Nepal. I wonder if the country can survive it. We spent the better part of today at Little...
Kathmandu
Kathmandu is sari’ed women riding side-saddle on Yamasaki motorcycles as they pass by Magar girls in low-hipped jeans. It is a young police officer cornered roughly and shoved against a bus panel as he tries to issue a traffic ticket. A Rahani-era roundabout imitates...
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