Chiang Mai Shows Its Colors At 49th Annual Flower Festival

The beauty of Chiang Mai’s annual Flower Festival in Buak Hard Park each February is beyond spectacular. The beauty starts with a million blooms on display, but it extends to the crowd which seemed to be universally filled with wonder and joy, and then also to the city around it. It made me fall in love with Chiang Mai all over again.

Best Laid Plans, part 1

I set out on an 8-week pilgrimage to Thailand to rediscover my writers soul after not doing any serious creative work for 40 years. I was inspired by an account of John le Carré’s adventure in the Golden Triangle and naively thought I could recreate it. But three bad disks in my back betrayed me.,