So this Great Blue Heron flew into the pond and was walking along the shore when he stopped, one leg frozen in mid stride. Shocked he was, Shocked! For just down the shore were ... ... the dreaded Canadian

"Yes, we do have bananas; we do have bananas today ..." So in addition to the chickens living next door to me in Kranuan, Thailand, there was a banana ... bush, maybe? It was -- and still is,

Images Resized for User Friendlyness ... When I returned back to the United States -- back to the suburbs of Cincinnati after a year in rural Thailand -- I thought that I would have trouble sleeping because

My Thai landlord, his wife and his oldest son not only gave me a lift to the airport ... snif ... they waited to see me off. I'm the one in glasses, btw ;)~ Call me Ishmael. It was a dark and stormy night.