Tag Archives: travel
bag defunct. bugs beware.
Are there any more bags? I asked this of the Thai man who poked his head in through the flaps that release the bags to the conveyor belt. Yes, one more, he said. My bag came out and I turned … Continue reading
history
I like, no, love history. I love learning about the past because it paints a picture of why the present is the way it is. Many of today’s problems have their roots in the past, in events that have transpired. … Continue reading
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While in Vietnam
While in Vietnam: I ate pho perched on a squat stool. A Singaporean man sitting behind us told us he wasn’t eating because he was already 105 kg. I discovered I have very expensive tastes in (fake) designer handbags (the … Continue reading
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for auld lang syne
So long 2010. Every year flies in and out faster the older I get. My elementary years seemed like an eternity packed into 10 years. Middle school seemed to slink slowly by. Each year in high school went by progressively … Continue reading
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Boiled eggs and blind turtles
Long ago, Buddha’s disciples asked them when their sins and bad karma would be gone. Buddha told them they’d be free of karma if they placed an egg into a river and after three years they put a blind turtle in the same river and when the blind turtle finds the egg, that’s when they’d be free of their sin. Continue reading
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