Month: December 2022

One of the most important phrases we can offer in life is "I'm so happy for you." The older I get, the more I realize

Sour, Sweet, Bitter and Spicy – these are the flavors of marriage in Chinese custom, and therefore the flavors that a groom and his groomsmen

If America is a young country, Singapore is a baby. Prior to 1965, Singapore had never been a country and prior to 1819 when the

Jews often say that you can travel to anywhere in the world and when you enter a synagogue, the services and prayers are familiar enough

I sailed through pillars of clouds and flashes of light regularly – sometimes every week or two, sometimes as long as a couple of months

"Where are you headed?" asked the 60ish ostensibly Dutch man as I climbed in the speedboat after hurling my backpack into it. "Back to Bangkok,"

Reading and writing require me to be in a certain headspace. The monkey chatter of my mind as to quiet enough to absorb, formulate or

"Everything on the island is more expensive. Buying anything here costs three times as much as on the mainland. That's why I go to Ban

At one point yesterday, I was worried I wasn't decompressing well enough. I also worried about whether I was maximizing my enjoyment of the beach,

The weather has been surprisingly cool. Neither breezy nor stagnant. Not cold, but not the humid swelter common enough to the beaches of Ko Samet.