We just landed but make time to squeeze in a home school field trip to a silk farm to see where silk comes from and how it is made. The farm is in Siem Reap set amongst a field of mulberry bushes in a series of wooden structures. The worms love the mulberry but would be eaten by birds if left in the fields so they live in the wooden buildings instead and the mulberry leaves are picked and brought to them. Isn't it often the case that thrifty people come ...

The purple plane and purple and gold vestiged flight attendants had my middle daughter take notice. The color of royalty has long been her passion. It clearly marked we were changing cultures- goodbye red lovin' Vietnam, hello purple Kingdom of Cambodia. Once we descended from the clouds it was clear the change had in fact happened. It was just 50 minutes ago we battled with thunderheads as we ascended to the skies- telltales of the approaching Vietn...

Our dear friends urged us to take the weekend away while they kept our kids and even pointed us towards Hoi Ann. The beach is one of the best I have ever been on. The quality of the sand, medicinal. The intermittent appearance of neurotic ghost crabs outsmarting gulls as they run to the waterline then scurry back to their holes warms my soul. The South China Sea is azure and the many fishing junks upon define a pace of living that bans cardboard coffee cups...

What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? Did it have a character like Freddy Kruger who came unexpectedly to deliver torment in the night? Surprise butchery sneak attack from a shark? How about When a Stranger Calls? The call is coming from inside the house! Evil is lurking in your air space and you have been tricked into miscalculating its proximity! Maybe it was one of those movies that played on the hideousness of the natural world turning ...

He is king when he rides his steed at amazing speeds, balancing over hurdles, defying gravity all the while roosting high atop the silken equine with nostrils flaring…yet you would only notice his scrawniness if you met him on the street. His prowess is intoxicating for so many women, he captures the tennis ball behind his back commanding it to go from its forward trajectory to balanced on his racket face in a split second. At times he even returns your...