Abroad

It`s been a dazzling week of travel and culture–a Chinese-Thai wedding, a visit to my godfather for an Italian dinner, the purchase and custom-fitting of a suit, learning about the Thai cats with two colors of eyes (who were in the process of moving to a new location), and now on to Japan (and having [...]

Traveling summer

As I set up for international travel this summer (lots of it), I’m debating how to trim down the load to lug around. Thankfully, we bought a Mac Air last summer, so toting the computer will be a breeze, plus photo processing will be simpler with transferring the pics onto the web for sharing [...]

Socially conscious Christmas

So this year, I’m working a lot on trying to keep with the spirit of Christmas in the post-ghost Scrooge fashion, to make my business “the business of mankind” in our family’s gift-giving.  Living a long way from any members of our family makes it a bit challenging to avoid the shipping costs, but hopefully [...]

Thailand’s struggle for democracy–the message is?

It may not be international news for most Americans, but with reports of over 100,000 tourists stranded in Thailand due to protests at Bangkok’s international airport, the point is being made that Thais are tired of corruption at the national level to the international community.

Unfortunately for the protesters, it seems like [...]

Baby boomer retirement

This one’s been on my mind for a while, but financial experts have been looking at this for years. Frontline has even done an entire program on it. What sort of plan my folks have is still on my list of “what to ask about” in the next couple of years and I hope I’m [...]