This morning the southern hemisphere woke to news of another terror attack in Paris. Multiple attacks have taken place across the city. A state of emergency has been declared and the country’s borders have closed. A hundred people are currently being held hostage at a concert hall, fifteen are already dead at this one site, … More Universal Values and the Attention of Terror
Paula was discharged from hospital late last week. She remains in the US to be near the care she needs and because the surgeons don’t want to send her home to a place without running water until her wound, which may need further surgical intervention, is healed. But she is healing and becoming stronger by … More Keeping Up With The Chamericans
I’ve avoided speaking much at all about this case because when I did initially mention it online, an internet troll accused me of siding with a criminal. I have also been very aware of the victim’s family and did not want to add to their anguish in any way, nor the anguish that I saw … More My Version of Someone Else’s Story
Twickenham Stadium in London is the home of Rugby England. In the early hours of this morning (Australian time), 82,000 spectators watched from the stands at Twickenham as New Zealand’s All Blacks thrashed Australia’s Wallabies, 34 points to 17 in the Rugby World Cup. According to my research, the cheapest tickets to this game sold … More Hello From The Other Side
It’s my last day in Cambodia after a whirlwind final week. By the time I returned from the US last weekend, Chom hadn’t seen his family, including his new baby, for five weeks. We made arrangements for an overnight visit to them a few days later. We traveled almost three hours upstream on the western … More Until We Meet Again
I had been in Cambodia about a week when one of the MSF expats announced excitedly that on a bicycle ride that day, she’d cycled through an Islamic village with a mosque and many people dressed in Islamic attire. Islamic people in Cambodia seemed a curious thing to our uninformed minds. Since then I’ve learned … More A Cross Cultural Islamic Experience
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream ~ Anatole France These words could have been written specifically for Paula. After developing severe, chronic abdominal pain during pregnancy in 2011, her interim years have been a living hell. We met on one of her most wretched days, approximately 16 months ago. She had … More Cambodia In America
But it seems that the remaining project now, is to cram my belongings into a case and meet my travel companions ~ Famous Last Words By Me A Couple of Hours Ago Proof reading the final version of my last blog post less than two hours ago, this happened. Finding the words for a blog … More Not Out Of The Woods Yet
Mornings in Kampong Cham town and across Cambodia come alive the moment the first ray of sunlight blazes it’s long sharp streak through the fading night skies. The first market sellers start to appear on their motos piled high with what would, in my world, be truckloads of produce. When I appear a few hours … More Trying To Be A Noisy Neighbour
A good friend of mine here in Cambodia regularly says “If I had a gun, I would kill many people”. It’s ironic and funny because he’s a comedian who would never hurt a flea. The more serious underlying message is his reference to the terrible things he knows go on in our general vicinity. A … More Chickens For A Toilet
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