Thoughts on Life and Living
I woke up this morning to the reality that this is my twelfth Thanksgiving spent in Asia. My 12th!
There is obviously no recognized holiday over here for this day, but generally folks allow foreigners to take off on their specific holidays. Today is such a day for us ex-patriot Americans here in Asia.
I know it is a little cliché, but I could think of nothing better this morning than to simply type out some of the things I am thankful for on this day. [Read more…]
(At the end of this post, I have a “funny small story” from this trip.)
As I sat there listening to the passionate, venerable nurse speak about her 37 years of serving in the Arabian Desert, I was mesmerized. She had faithfully served in this little desert hospital, appropriately named the Oasis Hospital, in the midst of the United Arab Emirates for over half of her 71 years of life.
Her name was
We FINALLY have pizza in this little corner of East Asia!
As I type this post, I am sitting in a coffee house about 1/2 mile from my apartment. I tell you this seemingly mundane detail, as this is not in fact a mundane detail. You see, it has not always been this way for my life here in Asia.
When I arrived in August 1999 to live here “long-term”, there was almost no “western food” in this area of Asia. There were tea houses, hotpot restaurants, and dinning establishments which featured the meats of the day in cages on the sidewalks out front.
As a result of both starting this blog AND the photo sharing application Instagram, I have really enjoyed taking pictures of my life here in Asia (and around the world) and sharing them the past year and a half. With my new website design, I was trying to figure out a way to integrate both my blog and sharing pics of life.
Here is my attempt! [Read more…]
Hello! It feels like forever since I have last written here. I AM ok and doing well. Life had just gotten too tiring and busy, so I needed to step back from a few areas for a little while. Blogging was one of them. Hopefully I am getting enough emotion bandwidth back to write regularly again!
Today, I looked back over the past few months of my blog. It hit me that [Read more…]