Twenty Days
It was a stretch, I know. Not simply a long shot, but a long time. Twenty days. Straight. In a row. Without a break. Twenty days on snow. Read more »
A Spoonful of Sugar
A spoonful of sugar. Taken from the BBC’s Good Foods Glossary. The best advice I ever received came from a fictional umbrella-toting nanny. “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” she sang. The irony is that taking this piece of advice at face value, it’s often wrong. Most liquid medicines are already sweetened [...] Read more »
Pain Free – On Catheters, Human Rights, and Vegetarianism
Urethral catheters. In high school, I had some serious jaw surgery. They removed a sliver of bone from my upper jaw and reattached it, leaving me bloated and recovering for over a month. Because of the invasive nature of the procedure, they used a full anesthetic and installed a catheter. If you’re unfamiliar with the [...] Read more »
A Different Pace
Light slips in through cracks, illuminating the longhouse provided for us in Karen. For more serene photographs of Thailand, click here. In the mountains outside the city of Chiang Mai lies a series of villages which are merely referred to as Ban Mai in Thai. To the people of these villages, our guide Samruam (Sam [...] Read more »