There's no real message or point to this post (for something new and different, I know) except to show you how beautiful it is to live in Stanley. I find myself engaged in this.  Up the Wilson Trail about 100 or so meters you get this view...sometimes....sometimes it's just clouds and wind.   Up the Twins … Continue reading When Not in Wine

Two weeks into Southside living and I'm smitten.  Stanley is absolutely charming, wonderfully empty in the mornings and evenings, and gloriously full of fresh lung filling air. This is what I wake up and run to. Down some scenic totally deserted side streets. To secret ocean side picnic spots in Chung Hom Kok. This is the … Continue reading I Love you, Stanley

This year I didn't make it home for Christmas, and when left in Hong Kong to my own (and those of all the winos I know) devices, means that Christmas is basically a month of nonstop gluttony. It all began with the Winos Annual Trade lunch at the Globe.  24 friends from the wine trade … Continue reading Merry Christmas from Honkers

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … Continue reading 2015: a review as told by WordPress

Thanks, guys.  Welcome fruit, dysentery free.  Welcome PDA  Delicious ant covered beef at Marum, definitely the best restaurant we visited.  Hey, Jesus. 4 am can't sleep coffee 5 am here we go Star line 6 am Angkor Wat At 13 k my phone completely stopped working after several days of fighting with the touch screen … Continue reading Cambodia.

               Maison Polanka.  My day began at 4 am when I reisgned myself to the fact that no more sleep was happening, as if any had happened anyway.  Races, and perhaps more apropos, alarm clocks, have a way of impregnating sleep with anxiety, so why fight it?  Coffee, downward dogs, and … Continue reading Peace.      

WordPress is postiny my pictures from most recent to oldest, so let's tell this story backward, shall we?      I am currently enjoying a fresh Angkor draft at the FCC  (Foreign Correspondent's Club) where just one year ago I made a quick guest appearance.   You see, last year after splitting with my husband (feels … Continue reading Wine in Cambodia (surprisingly) Rocks

Meet Kenneth.  Kenneth is our in house inventory guy who happened to have his birthday on Thanksgiving this year.  This is, however, is not him giving thanks, but instead praying to the powers that lie within the (delicious) strawberry cream cake.  In real Thanksgiving news, this year Thanksgiving (#2) was spent with Emily (not pictured) … Continue reading Thanksgivings