Asia
What language barrier?
“Hello, can I help me?” asked the smiling, well-intended, albeit language-challenged young woman at the Vietnam Airlines office…
Author: Skip
Asia
Saved by strangers at Chongqing hotpot
The bright lights and red façade attracted us to the first-floor hotpot restaurant not far from Chongqing’s Liberation…
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Dear President Obama…..
October 9, 2013 TO: Barack Obama, President United States of America Dear Mr. President, In my 58 years,…
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The teacher, the boy, and his Red Sox
“Teacher, there are so many things I do not understand. It all seems so wide, so big, so…..lost,”…
Asia
Malaria madness…fevers, chills and the cookie doctor
In my altered state of malaria-induced fogginess, New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport presented itself as an oblong-shaped mass…
Asia
Ambushed by India…all of it
I was not prepared for you, India. I had expected to tolerate you, coexist, to survive you. Armed…