Things I didn’t Post Because I was Binge-watching Netflix during a Pandemic
Last week, I returned from Asia to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I began...
Never go to an airport on the day they are closing international borders.
Never go to an airport on the day they are closing international borders.
Everything I wish I knew about online teaching during the Corona Quarantine but didn’t know who to ask.
What is the best platform for online teaching? The answer? Unity.
Fractured Folk Tale
For all of you hoarding toilet paper during the Corona Virus, this Laos Folktale is for you.
Parent Meeting, Malaysian Style
The party was an experience in Muslim tradition crashing with classic Americana. Rooty the Bear with burkas, curly fries with sardine puffs, Lego birthday cake and gift bags of jack fruit.
Quarantine Classroom Live!
As all of China schools has gone online for class, there are countless technical difficulties but no shortage of good monologue material for teachers.
Foodie Refugee
Foreign supermarkets will always be strange. You can buy everything but not the thing you really crave–a taste of home.
Sinhs
There’s only one thing more disgusting than having nothing to sell at the market than rodents. That’s being the tourist who wants to take a picture. Me.
Reclining Buddha, Falling Tourist
This is the picture you see on tourist websites for the golden Buddha in the Tham Phu Kham Cave in Vang Vieng, Laos. What they don’t show you is the black hole behind it, the one that I fell into, in spite of the flash light strapped around my head.
The Tao of Lao
I think of their experience while I am in exile in Laos during the Corona frenzy where my only regret is not packing my yoga mat.