After grabbing a salad from my trusty Paragon gourmet market, I’ve returned to my one bedroom apartment to do battle with a handful of overachieving mosquitoes, who have decided to skip all the open doors below me and fly directly to my bedroom on the 27th floor. I never considered mosquitoes to be particularly adept [...]
Written in February
Sleep is where you flirt with the unknown without discretion and answer those almost plea-like questions left unanswerable in the waking world. I’ve found those 8 hours can yield three things: sheer sleeplessness, a growing norm for me; horrific nightmares that carry through long passed the waking hour; or opportunities for the subconscious [...]
(Written in February)
I’m sitting at restaurant along the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos. Mariah Carey is singing something about being strong for those who’ve lost, as the sun makes its way across the river. The river looks dry for this time of year, more like a stream than the life-pulse of Southeast Asia. To see [...]