what’s a work-life balance?!

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 […]

A 8-month update post, in photos

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 […]

Franklin Arthur Bain

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 […]

yoga mats and mangoes (April ’16)

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, […]

long term storage

some thoughts after an hour spent sorting through boxes in storage from my time in Madison

Thursday observations

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 […]

Here it is, the good life

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. […]

Tokyo

a city of juxtapositions. and delicious delicious food. everywhere.