visa-funded wisdom
I bought a full year of Masterclass a few days ago, purely for the David Sedaris class on storytelling and humor. I figured, if I didn’t watch anything else the whole year,
happenings & vignettes
Vivid, noteworthy, or otherwise random moments, plucked from the raw materials of my life.
on becoming an old asian lady
A few specific smells and sounds are quintessentially Bali to me. Wafting incense, bonfires (of burning trash), temple chanting, and rake brooming. The latter I used to associate specifically with little old Asian
under the balinese sun
The totality of my time and attention since moving has been consumed by helping Kitty acclimate to her new environment and making this place baseline livable. Both required much more bandwidth than I
the joglo
M and I have moved into a two-bed, two-bath classic Balinese-style joglo with a lush tropical garden. Joglos are much different than anything you’d ever see in America, and are very interesting
like a dream
In Indonesia, the word Semimpi suggests something ‘like a dream’. This is the name of the hotel we’ve been living at since arriving in the fall of 2019. As the clock counts