Month: February 2011

“It’s beautiful and amazing, but I’m not so overwhelmed. Is that wrong? I think if we had come straight from home, I would see this

It's like falling into a dream. Sitting here writing in the gentle air carrying wafts of flowers and the caress of the garden plants. It

It couldn’t have been more fitting. We sat at a folding table with plastic chairs in a small parking lot eating som tam (spicy raw

“Okay, I’m done. Let’s go home,” Emily said as she finished her work on Koh Samet. She wanted to get her grading out of the

The winds took a turn and the sea became uncharacteristically rough – for Koh Samet.  The Gulf of Thailand's normally glassy complexion and aquamarine color

“Love, I can’t sleep! They’re biting me! I’m getting bitten and I can’t sleep!!!!” Emily said at 2 am. I was not getting bitten and

He dips one end of the stick in kerosene, takes it out and ladles on some more. He turns it around and dips the other

The feel is so familiar. Warm, balmy, a certain smell, a certain feel of the adequate, but unattractive room….it could only be Koh Samet. This

"Do you remember when we used to run errands and buy groceries?" "Yeah….and…." "No, that was it…. You remember how we used to do those

“Let me write it down for you, so you can remember it better,” was my very nice dentist’s very polite way of saying, “You don’t