I contacted a friend-of-a-friend who lives there as soon as I arrived, and she signed me up for a bike ride with a bunch of expats. We pedaled out of the downtown Phnom Penh area past traffic that is charitably described as terrifyingly chaotic. Motorbikes are the...
The sun beats down here – if you’re in the shade, it’s muggy but it’s fine. But the sun is so freakin’ hot. Motorbikes rule this city. Cars drive slowly because they’re automatically at fault if a rider gets hurt. At stoplights the...
There’s my sister, Lady Liberty, and me! I felt so close to the Big Green Goddess after our visit to her island. Kyna had never been to New York, and I’d never been to see the Statue of Liberty. We took a few days between her posts and went to soak up some...
Oh, Mexico. You never know what you’ll find. We had rabbit tacos at a roadside restaurant, and outside this car was sprouting… something. I had had a PERFECTLY AWFUL experience at a conference in a nearby city, and returned to the capital with my mood...
I spent all day in the hotel yesterday, Sunday, working like a madwoman. Today is Memorial Day and I’ll also work all day. Poor me! It’s not the most exciting work, either – the skill sets one uses to create a Performance Monitoring and...
Waiting for the bus is disconcertingly normal after being transported to Buenos Aires this evening. I’m outside the Avalon theater in Washington, DC, but just exiting the theater means I was just “somewhere else.” A good movie can steal you from...
