Creating the Lotus (or the evolution of a novel)
Writing a novel was never on my bucket list. In fact, it was something I didn’t want to consider. There were too many talented authors, too many wonderful stories, too […]
» Read moreSkip & Gabi Yetter: writers, travelers, foodies and former US media executives share their adventures, experiences and stories from their round the world travels after they leave the treadmill for a world of adventure
Writing a novel was never on my bucket list. In fact, it was something I didn’t want to consider. There were too many talented authors, too many wonderful stories, too […]
» Read moreThe glass doors slide open in the Phnom Penh airport and a face stands out in the crowd. SomOn’s. Eight years ago—almost to the day—the same man greeted us with […]
» Read moreHow odd that Phnom Penh should feel so much like home. And yet, how perfect. This place of bizarre contrasts both beautiful and horrible, with its smiling, struggling people and […]
» Read moreOn the way to work this week, we passed a man carrying a duck upside down. A few minutes later we saw a chicken tied by its leg to the tree. The strange part wasn’t the duck and the chickens. It was that we didn’t see them as unusual. Farm animals…
» Read moreThis Thanksgiving Day, I am wearing black and white. No turkey, pumpkin pie or celebrations around a dinner table. Just bananas, rice and salt — traditional offerings laid out by Cambodians in their individual shrines to honour the victims of Mon…
» Read moreA child’s tiny sandal lay half-buried in mud and garbage, a tragic reminder of the stampede on Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island Monday night which left more than 340 people dead and hundreds seriously injured. Dozens of onlookers and worried friends an…
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