Bad Pee
An absurd childhood: tales of the third world
Moving to Mexico
I started this blog to chronicle my first opportunity to re-visit three of my former expat homes (Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Ghana, Liberia, Zaire, France, England). Life got in the way after I returned to America, but this seems like as good a time as any to re-start. Grab your passport and join the party!
Coming home to Vientiane, Laos
Coming home to Vientiane, Laos, after an absence of more than 40 years.
A $50 pair of socks?!
Your first thought on seeing this post is probably: Really? The first photo she posts from this magnificent journey into her Southeast Asian past is a pair of freaking SOCKS?! To which I must respond: [...]
Getting there
I just arrived in Taipei, my transit point for the first leg. Tomorrow morning (at ohhhhh, dark-thirty), I fly to Manila to visit friends. China Airlines, LAX to Taipei Pleasantly, China Airlines did not live up to [...]
Going “home”
Going home to Laos At some point in one's I-Shall-Write-A-Blog madness, it will occur to the discerning author that one must actually start writing. I have hit that point. This evening, I received part of my [...]
Mumps and crème caramel at the Hong Kong Peninsula
Then there was the time I got the mumps. Yes, I know, everyone gets the mumps, but not everyone gets them while staying at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong.The Peninsula was the Plaza Hotel [...]