Monthly Archives: February 2009

I’ve been to Macau half-a-dozen times now, thanks to the hospitality of a few great Fulbright friends and a few trips with visitors that I’ve hosted.  Though it’s much better known for its outrageous casino scene (it made headlines in … Continue reading →

Happy Year of the Ox! Because I cannot say no to a travel opportunity, I jetted out to Bangkok the same Sunday my visitors from NYC left. ‘Twas the night before the Lunar New Year festivities kicked off in Chinese communities worldwide … Continue reading →

Gimme me an “H!” In two weeks we made major tracks in ‘Nam, hitting the biggest and best cities – 5 in total - all beginning with that under-rated letter. Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) The traffic. The telephone wires. The bars. … Continue reading →

Highlights: Taking a 9 hour train ride through rural China, accompanied by Cawnry (name of his own invention) an exceedingly enthusiastic guide with a curious Southern twang to his English  who studies political science in his spare time and who dreams … Continue reading →

Back in the blissful summer days of SHYC, when I was a much more scrawny, bronzed little thing (ah the good old days), my friends and I would walk down to the harbor to the Quarter Deck to buy beads and make bracelets … Continue reading →

It’s more the copy than the image that gives this public health campaign major panache points in my book. In the sad event that you’re too blind to (or to technologically impaired to zoom in on) the text, allow me … Continue reading →