Month: April 2011

“My issue is safety. Do you think it’s safe?” Emily asked me. “I don’t know – I’ve never done this before. You have. What do

The thing about hippies is that they make good juice drinks. No one tells you this and it’s not in the literature – but at

“I almost killed two tourists today!” Emily said in much the same way a mother talks about a hard day she had with her kids.

Emily came up with the idea for this trip. It all started one fine August day when we were on vacation with her family and

Two weeks ago, a crisis erupted in Bali. One that I had never seen or heard of before. A crisis that unthinkable. There was a

“Does it feel like your birthday?” I asked Emily. “No, not really. Lucy was asking me if we made any special birthday plans and I

The morning clouds floated southward, taking their gray haze with them. Bali is again brilliantly lit up by a sun that shines in a particular

It was time to get ourselves together. It was time to get me together. In the aftermath of two sets of guests, lots of car

It's all completely reversed. In 2004, when I moved to Bali and took up residence in our compound, I had the idea that I would

Only the torches broke up the dark, thick night. They lined the outer courtyard of the temple closest to our house. As the villagers gathered