If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands. Stomp your feet. Quack like a duck. Do whatever you like – but emote enthusiastically. While smiling from ear to ear like it’s Christmas. “If you’re happy…etc.” appears to be the (unofficial) national anthem of Cambodia. That is the song children sang to...
Note: Once again, it is impossible to load large files while we are on the Jayavarman. We plan to publish photo essays of the trip once we are on dry land. Meanwhile, please draw the images in your mind’s eye. It is a story is written in...
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation & Black Tie Ski Rentals present Matchstick Production’s “Ruin and Rose.” The event takes place Friday, November 18, 6 & 9 p.m.Tickets $15 per show adults, $7 kids 18 and under at the Sheridan Opera House. Watch the trailer below. The Sheridan Arts Foundation...
Editor’s note: Our trip on the Jayavarman, now in Cambodia, includes lavishly decorated palaces and colorful happenings on the water, right now, the Mekong. But you will have to use your mind’s eye to see it all through our words. Internet constraints make uploading large files...
We keep capturing the rapture, the limelight, surrounding Telluride Film Festival regular and student alum Barry Jenkins’ latest project. His “Moonlight” screened at the 43rd annual gathering of cinephiles over Labor Day weekend. It opened in general release on November 4. Wherever the movie was screened, critics have tripped over...
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, determine why an issue is important and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. In some of the most recent iterations of The Short Version, Cleo Abram looked at the pros and cons...
Tai, a former teacher, switched careers and has worked in the travel/cruise industry for over 10 years. On the hour-and-a-half bus ride from Saigon, ok, Ho Chi Minh City, to My Tho, where we would board our boat, he gave us the requisite chapter and verse about the Mekong...
In Vietnam now. Ironically. Received this story from Jesse James Mctigue today. She picked up the link from NPR. It is about a daughter who explored her father’s PTSD, the result of his service in the Vietnam War. Documentary is inserted below. Editor's Note: NPR's Kara Frame made...
A fisherman gets caught in a storm, but he is rescued by a magical turtle. The turtle gives the young man an egg, telling him that he to guard it well; one day he will know why. When that day comes, when the egg grows and grows and cracks open, the five...
Editor's note: Early in my commercial flying career I had the opportunity to learn to fly seaplanes. I never really improved on that initial training, but I retained enough to appreciate the skills of the pilots flying the Cessna Caravan on amphibious floats that returned...
