Zachary Maichuk is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Graduate School for Applied and Professional Psychology when most of the world is looking, and an accomplished leatherworker and mask maker when it isn't. Prior to re-entering academia, he wandered the world doing good deeds as a Peace Corps volunteer. Prior to that he was a student, eagle scout, and a good natured hippie-type.
His research and literary interests are varied and voluminous, and include psychology, religion, myth, trauma recovery and prevention, politics, history, art and the environment.
The first fondue I made is still one of my fondest memories. I was working in Africa for the Peace Corps, and a group of fellow volunteers and I had come together for Christmas. When we got to the house, we found a volunteer's used, dirty fondue set sitting on the kitchen stove. For sanitary reasons, we decided to clean it for him, and after that exhausting task was finished, we decided we had earned the right to use it. What followed was a holiday celebration in which a group of near strangers half a world away from home came together in a spontaneous stone soup style bonding experience. ...
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