The Slow Boat from Battambang to Siem Reap

At Twice the Time, it Still Beats the Bus

Adventures in Cambodian Bathrooms

Sanitary Habits the First World Should Implement

Foot Chakras

Connect Your Energy to the Earth

In honor of Earth Day our yoga instructor Maureen led a class that emphasized our connection to the earth. We began in Toe Squat Pose. Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Stand on your…

My Addiction: Coke Zero

Could I Give it Up? Do I want To?

Economic Prepositions

Mine, Yours, Ours, Theirs are words that matter

What Money Can’t Buy — 1: Economic Prepositions

I recently read Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets. The book stirred up ideas…

Yoga Body

What I See after 100,000 Minutes Looking in the Mirror

There is something unseemly about a middle aged man in a Speedo standing in front of a mirror. The lines etched under the eyes, the hair that migrated off the head sprouting out the ears and…

Hong Kong Heights

Perspectives from the World’s Most Vertical City

Hong Kong Heights

Everything in Hong Kong is tall and narrow, except, of course, the people. Hong Kong calls itself the vertical city; more people live above the…

Cambodia Today

A Generation after the Killing Fields

Is Obesity a Disease?

Diagnostic Implications for Personal Responsibility

Last summer, the American Medical Association decided by an overwhelming majority that obesity is a disease. I wish I could share their certainty. Obesity is a personal and public…