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Aug.27.2010
Welcome to the official yes-it's-really-happening blog post about my newest novel, A Clash of Innocents. The picture on the left is the first draft of the cover. It will be tweaked some more, but I'm thrilled with the image which was taken by a young fellow-traveler, Elizabeth Lowey, who was...
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May.04.2010
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam-era killing of students at Kent Statewho were protesting an escalation of the war into Cambodia. The situation built on campus for days, both students and National Guard troops tense. How the situation reached a crisis point is still debated, but when it...
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Feb.18.2010
Over the holidays a family friend was reading an ARC of The Lotus Eaters, and he mentioned that he really would have liked a map to glance at. I've been in love with maps all my life so that was all I needed to go on the big map quest. The publisher was enthusiastic and then came the trouble. We...
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Jan.28.2010
I have really run out of excuses not to write. You would imagine, fancying myself a writer and critic, that I would find any opportunity to write. But when there is something I love, I truly love, I find reasons to not do it, or preferably ignore it altogether.
I have another reason, although this...
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Dec.30.2009
My Gemini feet
gave me thrust
and I leapt to the
grand chandelier
in the center of the ballroom.
All the guests gasped,
and one-by-one
I flicked out
the bulbs with
the glass falling
to the floor,
and all the children
gleefully crunched
out the fragments
stamping with their shoes.
I swung like...
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Dec.21.2009
(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 12/21/09)
Cambodia deports 20 foreign Uighurs, who had been seeking asylum in the country, to China. Uighurs are a Muslim minority group dispersed throughout several Asian countries. They’ve recently been involved in ethnic rioting in western China, which...
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Nov.30.2009
Last year I joined a group of travel bloggers who set out to use our blogs for good during the holiday season. Together we raised more thank $7000 for Heifer International. This year we've set our sights even higher. We call ourselves Passports with Purpose, and this year we want to build a...
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Nov.11.2009
My father was born before the end of World War II in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia on February 1, 1945. His motherland remained under the French Protectorate since 1853. Laos and Vietnam also lived under France’s iron fist. The subjugation, repression, discrimination, and exploitation of Cambodge, Laos...
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Aug.05.2009
I much prefer reality television to reality life. Reality television is far shorter than reality life, one hour for the former and upwards of seventy two years for the later. Reality tele has commercial breaks and you can enjoy seeing it when it pops up a week later much the way a man enjoys seeing...
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May.26.2009
I organized my notes on my Cambodia trip for the first time in nearly a year. I was impressed that I still was able to find most of the notes. But as fate is a bit cruel and has a good sense of humor the important bits I have a managed to forget seem to be the ones I have lost. Now there could...
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