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Mona Lisa Massage Bangkok

July 17, 2023 – 2:41 am

Teenage boys in the early 70s were not supposed to like Joni Mitchell, but once I loved to France in 1982, I loved the line from FREE MAN IN PARIS. “I was a free man in Paris.” My freedom remained unfettered throughout the next two decades and while living in Thailand, I changed the lyrics […]

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May 13, 1991 – Bangkok – Journal Entry

May 13, 2023 – 2:14 pm

Last year this time I was hiking up a river to the Langtang Glacier. The year before I was selling diamonds for the Winicks on 47th Street and in 1989 I was in New York working at Eric Beamon, planning on spending the summer in Perpignan. My passport has three entries to Paris. Why I […]

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When We Were Young

November 28, 2022 – 9:38 am

I didn’t work that often in the late-80s. In fact I can’t remember what I did for money from 1987 to 1989. I was in my mid-30s. I hung out at nightclubs, but I didn’t sell drugs. I drank for free and hung out with beautiful women. Was that a crime? Because I seem to […]

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Stonehenge in Bangkok

July 31, 2022 – 11:18 am

New Englanders are relatively starved of archaeological ruins other than frost-heaved stone walls from vanished farms snaking through the woods or the smooth walls of the Quincy Quarries. Not one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was on our side of the Atlantic nor from Africa or the Far East graced list either […]

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Live Long and Prosper

September 22, 2021 – 10:44 am

The Masoretic version of the Bible claimed that Methuselah achieved the epic age of 969. His name is synonymous with longevity. No one in modern history has touched his nonagenarian record, although my great-grand aunt lived to 103. Bert circled the world in a sailing ship. One port of call was Bangkok. She was the […]

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