2/10/2015.  This morning I took Max to a basketweaving lesson from a young woman in the neighboring village. Her name was...

2/7/2015.  My friend Barbara back home in NYC told me about these guys in Bali who carve water buffalo skulls.  One call led...

2/3/2015.  Ever heard of this Indonesian coffee bean that passes through the intestines of a civet cat?  I keep seeing it on...

1/20/2015.  Kuala Lumpur came alive some 150 years ago with tin extraction.  The ambassador's residence was built on an old mine...

  1/19/2015.  What do you get when you combine Korean hospitality with diplomatic status?  The Best Of Kuala Lumpur.  My cousin...

  1/16/2015.  So just what is Professor Dorktastic doing while I'm refereeing the kids in museums and catching vomit in the...

1/15/2015.  No, I didn't actually make them use a typewriter.  This is just a pic from a furniture store we ducked...

1/13/2015.  Our concierge told me to go to Chinatown before 6pm because after sunset it's packed.  The kids and I took...

1/12/2015.  I called an Uber this morning to take us to the children's treehouses at the Singapore Botanical Gardens.  We pulled...

1/9/2015.  Someone gave us a book of Arabic proverbs yesterday.  This one sounds meaningful but isn't. For breakfast we had a smoothie made...