Mixed Emotions: On Leaving Asia

We are wrapping it up here in Thailand. In Asia. The time has come that we feel the need to swing back through our home country for a bit. It is time to see Brittany and Collin, time for a beer and a wee dram of whiskey and good conversation with good friends, time to […]

Monkeying Around.

This is the first post I have written in my new blog, that wasn’t transferred from the old one. In copying all of those old posts, and rereading them as I went, I realized that there was a bunch of medical problems and relatively serious shit in there. I need to remedy that with something […]

Statues At Temples… On Being A Buddhist Imposter.

This post was originally published on 28 March, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. I absolutely love visiting Buddhist temples. Every one has it’s own energy. Some feel empty, and some feel full of energy and peace. All over Thailand, from Bangkok to the most rural places imaginable, there are temples (Wats) in […]

What A Long Strange Trip… Or, Fucking Retirement Is Trying To Kill Me.

This post was originally published on 18 March, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Well, it’s been a while. Sorry about that, but it turns out this retirement thing is a lot more work than I thought. I have written a bit about my TIA, so I won’t try to bore you further with […]

The Things You Find On The Beach In Vietnam

This post was originally published on 16 Feb, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. I wanted to do a post on here about the strange and beautiful things I find every morning on my walk on the beach. I found pretty shells, and… … more pretty shells, and… … this cute little orange, and […]

A Little More Lighthearted.

This post was originally published on 6 Feb, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Going back a few days here. This was the couple of days after my TIA, in the town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where we visited the second of three hospitals. We managed to have fun in spite of the […]

Little Plastic Chairs And Fear.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Tam and I have been at this for years. We have worked hard for the twenty-five years we have been together, and really put our energy into this retirement plan for the last five of those. We did the […]

Vietnamese Emergency Rooms.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. We had the distinct pleasure of visiting a couple of emergency rooms here in Vietnam on Wednesday. It was a bit of a scary story, and at this time, everything is okay. I walked into a bathroom at the […]

Poklongarai Temple.

This post was originally published on 28 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. The Poklongarai towers were built for, well, yes, King Poklongarai. They were built during his lifetime, in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He was a pretty popular king to the Cham people, and was revered for being […]

Chuc Mung Nam Moi

This post was originally published on 25 Jan, 2023, and moved here, to my new blog. Or, Happy New Year! Tam and I were really excited about the Tet holiday this year. It is the Vietnamese new year, based on the Chinese lunar new year. We were too busy and tired this year at home, […]