What Do I Know?

 Back around Fall 1981, the University of Alaska Anchorage swimming pool had a challenge - swim the Bering Sea over the semester.  In the po...

No, I didn't take this movie, I'm not THAT old. Even my mom hadn't been born yet. This was posted at Thai-Visa [not sure if y...

Elephant and mahout coming to beg at Chiang Mai restaurant 2008 Four years ago, I posted about elephant beggars in Chiang Mai, Thailand....

Recent Email: Hello, I found your email address on your blog... and I found your blog because I've been searching bird song in Tha...

The birds were out this morning as we did last minute packing. The video is not good enough to see the details of the birds, so I put up th...

Our trip home gets more exciting each day. As I mentioned earlier, the first report from our travel agent was that China Air had diverted t...

Tomorrow we move out of our fourth floor bird viewing nest. We've had some great birds this week. J definitely saw an owl (she thinks ...

I'm taking the day off today and we're headed to see elephants with JP, who's doing his doctoral research on elephant behavior. ...

One of my neighbors found my blog and sent me this invitation to help build a meditation space for single mothers. [The picture is from Can...

[Saturday morning, March 27, 11am Thai time] My impending departure seems to be sinking in at the office. "But you just got here.&quo...

Food was big yesterday. Got Vegie Thai lunch, then J came home with the results of her cooking class today. It was most of the day. They ...

So yesterday we went to Vegie Thai for lunch. Today they delivered. I have to say, the food was really good. And I like that it's no...

Tok had shown me the VegieThai website. It's run by a friend of his who is an accomplished chef and who has started a business that incl...

All this is in the context of the modern debates on global warming, sustainable farming, and land rights for the various hill tribes livi...