Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead, though. The medications must be saved and no expense spared.
Catching Crickets with Elephants
The Barge Ceremony
From start to finish the procession is about 3 hours long. It is a regal extravaganza.
Happy Secret New Year
…it is the headwinds that erode the texture into our life.
Rise of the Machines
Somewhere upstairs, in another room, your food is prepared and bagged, Henry-Ford-like and shunted on down the line.
The Immigrant
It was saddening to hear this. This perception that we the people were all being painted the same shade of unwelcoming belief.
The Plain of Jars
I just realized that we’d spent Veterans Day weekend in Central Laos where we took in the Plain of Jars. This is an area of archeological sites made of of 3-12 foot […]
Cleansing Thoughts
If you’ve come reading this week for answers, I pity you. This week more than others, I offer none.
The Grump
“Oh no! You may have won the war, but I will not cede my moment of baby’s breath under your dirty drippings.”
Land of 20,000 Tailors
Long weekend in Hoi An, Vietnam, former port town halfway down the long thin Vietnamese coast. Like all of this area, Arabs, Chinese, and Japanese traded here for centuries until the river […]
Eating Penang
Stopped off in George Town, Penang, Malaysia last week. A side jaunt on the way home from a long stretch. If you’re in the area, you can probably smell it. Like Singapore, […]
