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John Dennehy is a teacher, writer, dreamer and traveler.  He has spent most of his life in New York but more recently spent five years living and working in Latin America and Asia.  He is finishing his first book, which is about life, love, revolution, and sneaking across South American borders.

Love Against Borders

When I graduated college, I was twenty-one and anxious to get out of New York and see the world. I accepted the first job I found: teaching English to children in a small mountain city in Ecuador. The ten-week assignment in a foreign land soon became my life and my home, and, as one may expect, there was a girl. Two years later, when police refused to recognize my visa and placed me under arrest, all I thought about was Rosy.

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This is our first International essay–straight from Australia. Kirsty Petersen is a mum, an ex-wife, and she has a Bachelor's Degree in business. She owns her own swim-lesson business and is embarking on a new life which will entail lots of things she's wanted to do but hasn't (including writing this essay).

Fantasy Football

The air was thick with testosterone.  Deep voices were at a higher pitch and would be close to hoarse in just over an hour.  Faces around me were smiling and laughing, some due to the upcoming events, others because of the camaraderie and beer.  Gold jerseys far outweighed those of our visitors from across the ditch.  As I made my way down the stairs to my seat, I felt relaxed.  It was a year since I had seen the Wallabies LIVE.  Last time I was a virgin to the game, now a full-fledged groupie. The All Blacks gave us a walloping in New Zealand and the scene was set to even the score at Home.

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