Education, Training and the Middle Class

Americans don’t resent the wealthy, nor do people around the world. Most know they will never be rich. They don’t care. What they do expect is to have economic hope, a sense that they will be free from fear of economic insecurity. There is flexibility in defining hope and expectation, which are different around the […]

Another Night in Bangkok

The Chinese fight attendant smiled at me and I wanted to fall in love. She was pretty and so kind it almost makes the trouble of this trip worth it. This leg of the trip is almost over and I will be in Shanghai soon. I woke up early at the Patumwan House at 6AM […]

Reality Models and The New Science of Fixing Things

It felt like a knife to the hip, being twisted when I moved. What a start to the year! My hip was so painful that I couldn’t walk. When I got to the hospital, I found myself in a wheelchair. Nothing I could think of set it off. I didn’t fall on the ice or […]

Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2012

For my friends who worried that I would, I did; someone stole my heart. When I leave, I will carry a heavy heart until I can come back. I will miss her, and I know she will miss me. I see her every day now. When I went into the mini-mart yesterday in Phnom Penh, […]

One Day in Laos

I woke up late, around 7AM, and read the news from the Tea Party News Network and Fox News on the internet. I can see the Mekong River out the big windows. I slept with them open and could smell breakfast cooked on charcoal on the sidewalk one floor down. I drank all the in-room […]