From a reader in Louisiana:

Sarah Presley, the blind Peace Corps worker in October's Readers Forum, sounded like she had an interesting story to tell about having served in Morocco. I think she is the second person I know of who has done this. The first was mentioned in a recent RFB&D newsletter as having served in the Dominican Republic.
There is a book here if enough blind people have served in the Peace Corps. With my Spanish, they'd want me, but with my age and my health, they'd toss me out.
As to the article on mediums, I have never felt James Van Pragh is real. I just don't. I think Sylvia Browne may be or may think she's real. But she is horribly expensive, $700 for 20 minutes, and her son, Chris Dufranes, is a mere $400. I think it could be misconstrued as a clever racket to manipulate the New Age credulity of a public that has been conditioned since the 1960's to think of mysticism and occultism as the highest callings one can aspire to. I'd want several mediums to report on me and compare the output to see if they were, in fact, on the right track. But that costs money and the New Age ain't cheap--try going to Deepak Chopra's place in La Jolla or to see Dr. Andrew Weil. It's a money game for the upper-middle class so they don't feel too guilty about being born lucky--and no more.