Two days ago a student asked me how I maintain a work-life balance. We were sitting in a café talking about forms, scholarship essays, and the pain of having to […]
I haven’t written anything in months and months. Nine of them, to be precise. In that time, in no particular order, I traveled to Laos, Cambodia, and Bali (Indonesia), Jules and […]
The addition of Franklin Arthur Bain, aka ‘hellbeast’, to the Talbot-Bain household. Franklin Arthur is a fluffy white marshmallow of a kitten with a wonky ear and an attitude much […]
As soon as you hit the outskirts of Siem Reap (Cambodia) the road switches to dirt, and the dirt is something like the color of new bricks. The roads are dusty, […]
If you’ve read much of anything I’ve written about living in Vietnam (like this or this), if you’ve lived here before or visited here before, you know that making this […]
mostly-coherent ramblings about existence, post-transition from what is hopefully only the early-middle bit of a new era. emphasis on “hopefully” April 2nd. It’s April already. April of 2015, no less. […]
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