What Do I Know?

My brain has been wandering.  I've got half a dozen posts either in draft form or in that wandering brain.  But sitting down to type the...

The day began on Bainbridge Island walking my granddaughter to school.  She had on a backpack and a yam (rising tone, like you're asking...

The Thai Kitchen, after 30 years, was closing briefly to move a few spaces down the mall, next to the Yogurt place that they also own.  T...

We're back in LA trying to do more work on my mom's house.  Despite all we've given and thrown away, it still looks packed with...

I still have film festival video and other posts to put up.  One film maker I almost didn't record was Thanachart 'Ben'* Siripat...

I posted a brief irreverent video of RG's 20 second history of Alaska earlier today, but took it down at the request of the 'histori...

I've been a little unfocused. I had another post to put up from the Energy Conference Monday, but the video wouldn't work right. B...

Martial chaos in Bangkok. Clues to check out on the Stevens' case. Local outrage about the comments of the Palin attorney general pick...

Instead of LOL on their emails, Thais write 55555. In Thai, 5 is pronounced "Ha" with a falling tone, as if you were emphatically ...

Etaoin Shrdlu is: A place for McClatchy editors and others to talk about the changing news media landscape. I stumbled onto this blog while...

Someone from Holland got here googling "thai keyboard shipping holland online." I doubt if he/she will be back here, but just in c...

Who will be the first to write the English meaning of the pink word on the sign? It's probably much harder than I think, but it's p...

Monday night, March 3 I did my seminar this morning. We got into things like productivity and time management - particularly identifying th...

As I try to read through the Thai in my organization's work plan, the words that I've put on my list are now recognizable. But as I...

Friday, February 22, 5:13pm I've known the word งาน since I first studied Thai. It means work. But it also shows up in words like งาน...

This started out as a post on the village fair I went to Thursday night. But the intro seems worthy of a separate post all its own. All Tha...

Working this out has taken a while. The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) had a spot for me at one NGO, but political issues ruled that ...