I’ve been everywhere, man
Welcome to my blog, Where No Mangoes!
This blog began as a record of my sabbatical from teaching in 2024: a comic travelogue of an 8.5-month break from teaching at Temple University for travel and work on my new book on satire. It was a satire-batical.
Now the blog is back in action, as I am abroad again to teach at Temple University in Japan’s newly opened campus in Kyoto. The second iteration is here: Where No Mangoes: Kyoto.
To navigate around this blog, here are the Sections. In addition to the semi-regular blog posts listed a bit below, which you can subscribe to, there’s also:
The About Page –About the author
Travel Log – Where I stayed
Extras To Read All About 2025 – The Above and Beyond regarding Japan 2025
Extras To Read All About 2024 – Stuff that didn’t end up in a post in my 2024 blogs
Index to Posts: Hawaii, S Korea, China, Italy, England – Jump to 2024 posts by country.
Now with navigation to the next or previous post because I finally found those buttons!
By the way, your comments are really appreciated! Once you have typed them into the Comments box, I have to click to approve them, and that sometimes takes a little time.
It’s as close as we can achieve here to a real bureaucracy.
– Amy L. Friedman, your host
Latest Posts
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On sabbatical, one is a magnet for adventure. But then one returns home.
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How hard can it be to hike up a hill? Well, that depends on Where No Mangoes, doesn’t it?
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The popular mystery-solving nurse, Cherry Ames, whose book series started in the 1940s, gets a very satire-batical update.
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Finally pulling back the translucent lace half-curtains on what life in a small, very picturesque village in the North of England is really like.
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Where a wandering writer, who has some pages to fill, can look forward to a genuine hive of activity.
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Fitting into life in a small picturesque North Yorkshire village, imagined as something of a Royal Undertaking.
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Time to say “Ci vediamo, or We will absolutely be seeing each other again, at which time I will definitely have worked on my future-tense Italian verbs” to Rome.
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I would like to acknowledge with gratitude the inspiration for the work I completed at the Artisa Writers’ Retreat in Italy, during the two lovely weeks I spent there in May.
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