What a wild holiday week! Monday night, I joined the Chiang Mai hordes making a 6hr night pilgrimage up to the mountain top temple to wish Sir Buddha a happy birthday, enlightenment…
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Self Portrait #3 – Primal
NO SNAILS WERE INJURED IN THE MAKING OF THIS PHOTO (except for that one that fell in the pond, clumsy little guy…) So I’ve added a few new jungle moves to my…
Second Workshop at Hope Home
Today, I escaped the office for an afternoon and hopped into the volunteer van on its way to our partnering organization: Hope Home. Hope Home is refuge for Thai children with disabilities.…
Feet painting
We do lovely workshops with Hope Home, a home for children with cerebra palsy and other disabilities that are not looked upon favorably in the Thai culture. These beautiful children experience the…
Printmaking at Hope Home
Today our fantastic volunteer Nicola, created a print making ARI workshop for our partnering organization, Hope Home. Hope Home is refuge for Thai children with disabilities. Social taboos and and an overall…
Self portrait – Fear
Fear [fir] noun. 1. A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. If there is one…
Thai Treats….
Some of my favorite things of Thailand: mangos growing in your backyard, delicious fruit from the local market, Thai coffee from heaven and fresh vegetables!
Good Morning Thailand…
This big old house is starting to settle in around me and the jungle noises that emanate from the overgrown pond area and backyard, are starting to sound more like greetings rather…
Self Portrait Challenge
Why yes, that is me, getting all down n’ dirty with some smelly laundry and two broken down ol’ washing machines that just happen to have been in my backyard. My bestest…
Sunday Market
This weekend, I set off to explore Chiang Mai, the first step of which (of course) was to get lost down small alley ways and back streets. I’ve made a name for…
Land of a Thousand Smiles
Hello from sunny Chiang Mai, Thailand! The chicken has official flown the coup! The Korean coup that is. So I made it. After flying all night and weedling evil luggage weight Nazis,…
Farewells and Happy Trails!
I cried all over my last samgapsal school lunch. I should have known I couldn’t hold off the waterworks with my favorite little 4th grade students. I’m so glad they were my…
The Time Hack
A while back I referenced an article about slowing down our perception of time by doing something new and crazy every day. Well today I stumbled across the blog again,The Time Hack,…
"You’ve got to jump off time and build your wings on the way down."
It’s just about that time, my lovelies…time to say goodbye. But not the sad sort of goodbye, the happy-I’m-moving-to-Thailand sort that makes you wanna do a goofy little jig! I feel in…