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Thailand

Animals and People in Thailand

...A few days later we walked down the same block where we ate the first night, and we saw a man selling fried cockroaches, frogs, grasshoppers, and maggots. People grill meat on skewers like chicken, beef, pork, and shrimp. (Fact: Thailand is the country that exports the most farm-raised shrimp in the world!) They even grill chicken livers and chicken tails. ....

Bangkok, Thailand

...Bangkok has a wonderful tradition of street food, rivaled only by Mexico as far as I can tell. If you don’t mind some exhaust fumes with your dinner and are willing to pull up a stool next to the chipmunk-sized cockroaches, you can get some damn good grilled satay for a mere 10 baht (30 cents). Or a fat bowl of rice noodle soup, chock-full of fresh basil, chili, bean sprouts, lime, more forms of pork than I know what to do with, and a juicy pair of ping-pong-ball-sized fish balls, which I nonchalantly move to the side (trying hard not to imagine how big the fish they came from must have been)...

Homeschool Corner

...Thai curries have become one of my favorite dishes to cook (and for a while, they were the most aggravating). It has taken me three years to get them right, and along the way I have made many versions that left us all a bit disappointed. These attempts were palatable, and maybe even good, but something was eluding me—that something that made the curries “pop”. However, Angela kept encouraging me (given that Thai curries are one of her favorite things to eat and no restaurants back here in the US can ever seem to get them right). Eventually, I discovered the secret for the perfect curry: achieving a harmonious balance. My strategies may be a bit unconventional, but I hope you’ll find that the end result not only tastes authentic, but may offer some improvements over what you might have had in the past...

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"Hamams and Sacrificial Altars”

SLAB, Fall 2016

"Which God Is Ours"

Summer 2016 Colere

"The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam" 2015 Literal Latte Essay Award

"Halloween in Bulgaria"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards

"Thanksgiving on the Bosphorus"

Santa Fe Writers Project, February 2016:

"Garlic Naan for Hanuman"

Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2015:

"Escaping the Swine Flu, Nearly"

Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2015:

"Farewell to the Highlands"

Your Life Is A Trip, October 2015:

"Homeward Bound"

Your Life Is A Trip, May 2015:

The Big Field Trip

"Escaping the Great Mosque of Uqba" World Press Review, April 2015:

"Homeschooling on the Road"

International Living, August 2014:

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Santa Fe New Mexican, March 2015:

"Which God Is Ours?"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Award and

published in Asia Literary Review, Spring 2015:

"The Scorpion Whisperer"

Eventus Magazine, June 2014:

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What do you get when two blissfully-ignorant lovebirds get the harebrained idea to schlep three children,

five backpacks, a guitar, and a garlic press on a two-year journey around the world?

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