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water :: three
He waits quietly, this man, wrapped in a cotton sarong, his chest bare. This man, our neighbourhood’s patriarch, sits outside his small house waiting for his daily wash. Our back balcony overlooks...
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water :: four
She smiled back at me, a few metres ahead on the travelator. It was this flat moving escalator, taking us and our trolley of luggage from one level of Bangkok’s international airport to another, that...
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full stop
It’s hard to stop, isn’t it? Hard to move against the forward momentum of your days and just stop. To mark a full stop in the prose of your days. More than just a comma, more than a pause for a quick...
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home delivery
Home delivery, Cambodian style. Most people buy enough food for today – often out of financial necessity or due to a lack of refrigeration – and a daily cart winding its way through the streets...
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still
Still flat on my back. Still waiting. Still holding onto these words. Enjoy your week-ending! And if you still have a bite of time wandering around the web, you might like: wonder through eyes of...
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reverse
As we prepare to leave Cambodia, I am sometimes overwhelmed by the swirl of emotions. Sadness. Guilt. Pain. Tiredness. And a list of potential outcomes which I feel I have failed to achieve over...
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justees
A river of contrasts, this Tonle Bassac river which slithers and snakes its brown path through the story of this city. A story of those who have little and those who have much. A story of high rises...
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prepare
These last few weeks have been full of preparations. Preparing to finish my job and hand over work to my replacement. Preparing our girls to finish at school and farewell their friends. Preparing to...
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everydays
She gets it, this girl of ours. She gets that often we don’t fully comprehend or appreciate or understand the value of something that is familiar and everyday until we are about to lose it. And she is...
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