The Slow Boat from Battambang to Siem Reap

At Twice the Time, it Still Beats the Bus

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…

Perfect Yoga

However You Define It, It Cannot be Achieved

There is no such thing as perfect yoga; there is always room for improvement in any posture.

All yoga is perfect; each pose reflects our mind and body at its moment of execution.

Rumblings of Revolution

When Does Economic Inequality Tip Stability to Chaos?

Cutting Up the Economic Pie

Can everyone get a large enough piece?

This is the second…

Return to Bikram

Worries about Surviving the Heat Whither as My Practice Improves

Six months after stopping Bikram cold turkey, I return to the Friday 6:00 am class on a cold, clear March morning. For months the idea formed an anxious knot in my…

Water Water Everywhere

And even fewer Drops to Drink

When the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned the line, Water, water everywhere not any drop to drink in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798, water’s prevalence on this earth might have reached its…

Culture Crash 101

Trying to Win a Project in China in under 36 Hours

There are moments in life when the essential character of a place reveals itself with such force that it burns into your mind forever. It is not that the place exceeds expectations so…