Bangkok Glutton

I spent three weeks in Laos and I loved it as much as I could without having the luxury of sleeping on my pillow back at home.

When I was a kid living in Pennsyltucky, I used to daydream about a place with soaring green mountains, rice paddies, and snaking rivers that I could move to someday, far away from teachers who gave lectures about how not … Continue reading →

It was one of those weeks when I was furiously scrambling around town, trying desperately to get something off the ground that will probably never see the light of day.

When I was an undergraduate student at Bryn Mawr, I remember reading Edward Saïd’s “Orientalism” and having my mind blown.

I love fried chicken.

People say that the best thing about travel is how it teaches you about yourself.

A long long time ago, in a country far far away, I went to a Steely Dan concert.

In spite of all of the guides I’ve published about traversing the length and breadth of Thailand for good street food, I’d never been to Songkhla, a province set like a cap over the three southernmost Thai provinces of Pattani, … Continue reading →

Another week, another outrage-generated Twitter discourse, and this time, it’s not about food.

It’s been a little over a week since my knee surgery, and since then I’ve mostly been relegated to hanging out at my house, Jimmy Stewart-in-“Rear-Window”-style.

If you follow astrology, you will have read that there is a big shift in the world from the sun exiting Capricorn and entering Aquarius.