What Do I Know?

My book club is reading Amatav Ghosh's The Glass Palace. The meeting host generally tries to make refreshments with an eye to food ...

Monday night at the Bear Tooth we saw Burma JV - a movie about a handful of Burmese video journalists (VJ) who took it on themselves to doc...

[Feb. 13, 2009, 12:30am Thai Time] "This has to be a hoax" was my first reaction. "This is how bloggers and newspapers get c...

After class today, I biked over to Scott's office to return his camera. The glorious morning sunshine was gone, the trail around Univer...

Frank asks in a comment on my post on the difference between a hurricane and a cyclone, do you know the earthquake in Wenchuan of China on ...

Last week I posted a copy of an email about a presentation in Chiang Mai entitled "Bio Fuel By Decree." Now I'm following th...

I haven't posted much about Burma - except the border runs - because what I did hear from people working with Burmese organizations in T...

Burmese exile Kyi May Maung put links to my Border Run posts on her blog this week. She's also got two poems in a new anthology Langua...

We had a little time before the bus left and we found this organic shop. Since my organization is working on these issues, I naturally take...

We went back into Thailand, then went to check out the riverside guest houses for lunch. Our Lonely Planet book says about the guest house ...

Now, here's the real reason Tachileik is a destination for Thai tourists - shopping for Chinese goods. I finally found a pair of sandal...

Coming out of the Thai-Yai village we passed a Chinese Buddhist temple that had a small forest of beautiful trees still on the back of the g...

Just behind the temple we wandered down this back street with seemingly tiny crude houses. Actually, these were shops and the house was bel...

Our casual destination was the large pagoda we'd seen from the hotel all lit up last night. But this exquisite pagoda caught our attent...

Our room was on the 5th floor. In the evening we were going to walk down the stairs to the lobby, but discovered that only the 5th floor ha...