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...

The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City is an interesting outing. It is operated by the Vietnamese Government and was first opened September 1975 under the name Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes. Puppet of course refers to government of South Vietnam, who were our war hosts in tropical unparadise. Saigon fell April 1975 so just like any nation ravished from war, they opened a museum 4 months later. History shows that apparently this is a North V...

At this moment I am sitting along the Saigon River at DEAR friends' house. They have rolled out the red carpet. We feel cradled like babies and must admit we need the lovin as are a bit beat up from the road and the China pollution poisoning. We just got back from the local salon where 12 people united to peel the China off of us with facials, shampoo and head massage, blow dry, color where needed, manis and pedis. The total bill for the 5 of us to be primpe...