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Have you ever noticed that the best travel writers never really considered themselves as such?  Look at anybody’s list of favorites ...

America can be brutal, a little bit of Gitmo in all of us and waiting around every corner. This morning was a good example. It’s never f...

Don’t go looking through your cookbooks for this one, trying to find what comes after masala , trying to figure out just how this guy might ...

Transient! The word rolls off downward-curled lips in a sneer usually reserved for such lower-castes as prostitutes, shit sweepers, backpa...

My wife Tang is in hot dog heaven. Think all Thais are ladling creamy curries over rice three times a day? Think again. You wouldn’t b...

“Thai society is pretentious,” or so says my wife, a quote I remind her of periodically. All the little one-on-one-up-man-ships become rig...

I’ve done my own taxes all my life, Schedule C and SE, 1099’s and 1040 long forms, estimated tax and exempt foreign income ad infintum ad na...

All good things have to come to an end some time, don’t they? After almost exactly ten years in Thailand , maybe it’s time for me to move ...

Just when you think the dollar couldn’t suck any more or any worse than it already does, then it starts going down again, kind of like Londo...

My father-in-law is dying. I tell him he’s not, but he is. They’re killing him, not some vast faceless conspiratorial capital ‘T’ “They”...