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From Nightlife to Daycare

Published on January 11, 2012 By Gregg Potter

Moving to Vegas in 2001, I never thought that this would be a place that I would be thinking about childcare and the importance of finding a right babysitter, choosing the perfect fit of a daycare and of course, where does my child go to school but here I am, in a city with some [...]

Revisiting the Last Year: Human Feng Shui

Published on December 20, 2011 By Gregg Potter

This post was back in March after I had been in Las Vegas for a week: While I was in Las Vegas, I got a chance to talk with Justin from the Ethiopian Community Development Council, INC(ECDC),  about the Human Feng Shui Project.  What this is set out to do is to successfully place refugees into American [...]

Pilgrimage to Las Vegas

Published on August 30, 2011 By Gregg Potter

One of my close friends whom I met while I lived in Las Vegas at the beginning of the last decade had decided to move back there to continue her education.  Now ten years older, with a child, she is making this pilgrimage west to the desert.  I didn’t realize that when I agreed to [...]

One Month In

Published on March 30, 2011 By Gregg Potter

Last night I escaped to the pool of the apartment complex I’m staying in.  I’m tending to this nasty sunburn that I received down here on the first couple days when I fell asleep on the beach.  It is not pretty and I am about to get on a train for twenty-seven hours.  I laugh [...]