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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You packed your laptop, some comfy writing loungewear, a swimsuit, and pajamas, and you biked across Italy to the Artisa Writers’ Retreat. Now it’s time to get to work.
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More than you could ever want to know? No, much more than that.
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How one middle-aged lady laughed in the face of pandemic lockdown isolation, armed only with a bicycle and a fistful of crayons.
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There is just an awful lot of Italy. Especially in the middle.
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Because I know you have questions! How can you not have questions?
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Cue the Grandmas on scooters.
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Because why are we here if not to test a few personal boundaries?
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