I have enjoyed a long and exciting life so far. While a stable and predictable style of living can be attractive, dancing with chaos is where the fun is. About eighteen months ago I began a new, fun retirement gig as a digital content creator. My new incarnation as a…

It was a sunny, cool Springtime morning in 1987 about 8 o’clock. I had just arrived to work at my firehouse on West 48th and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. That part of the city had a pleasant feel to it in the morning. Commuters were beginning to arrive in droves…

“You will be using your own money” said Jajaa, a cute Thai coquette promoting the use of Bitcoin Cash, a newer offshoot of Bitcoin. Jajaa is a well informed and articulate front person at the business end of an effort in Thailand to get retail merchants accepting Bitcoin Cash from…

“Zombie Land”! “Will Pattaya Survive”? “Nana Plaza Deserted”! I find new thumbnail exclamations like this every day on YouTube videos about Thailand’s suffering entertainment zones (a euphemism for red light districts). …

“To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird; they twitter and sing on your pillow”. Pop! The sound resembled gunfire, a bit of irony for me. When I had arrived in Ho Chi Minh City a year earlier, my mind was filled with old ideas…

“Don’t believe everything you see in media”. (Jim Bean Salerno, 8 Nov 2016). March 15, 1862, Stalwart Englishwoman Anna Leonowens stood upon the deck of a masted schooner as the sturdy ship, three days out of Singapore, navigated northward up the Chao Phraya River to the Siamese Royal Palace in…

Tom Thornton looks like Harry Potter. My guess is he curates that image. I think the young Mr. Thornton has worked diligently learning the finer points of video production. His YouTube video: NYC to LA BY TRAIN… is excellent. Mr. …

Once known as Siam, Thailand is a magical kingdom in the tropical far east. It is a land imbued with ancient mysticism abstracted into deities and Thepphanom — mythological Thai versions of Greek Nymphs — along with a gleaming capital city where you can rent a Ferrari. Thailand appeared as…

This is a story of how the Universe conspired with a seventeen year old Thai girl and gave an old man a renewed sense of purpose. You can watch a YouTube companion video to this story too. In 2016, I landed in Bangkok with two big suitcases and a small…