A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

I'm a communications strategist and writer with a journalism background, a drifter's spirit, and a growing sense of alarm at where this world is going. I am happiest when writing pieces that identify, contextualize and background societal problems big and small in hopes of helping us at least slow our deepening crises.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

World peace, an end to poverty, and less garbage

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Day after Christmas at Las Penitas beach      Were it up to me to pick a project for Central America, it might be garbage.     In coun...
Friday, January 16, 2015

It takes all kinds to make a world

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   An acquaintance made a comment recently to me about what it was like for me living in "the Third World." I've struggled...
Monday, January 05, 2015

The cost of development

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Wealthy nations depend on poor countries to produce cheap goods, in factories that enjoy tax-free status in the countries where they op...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

The good thing about traditions is that you can always remake them

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Christmas Eve 2012, Utila, Honduras     Today is my birthday, my third one in a row celebrated outside Canada. I wouldn't dream ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

There's a million stories in the big city

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  Horse cart man  and cotton candy vendor at the end of their day, Managua     Oh, for a good newspaper that had an appetite for day-...
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