Guest post by Joanne Edmundson, a writer and an expat Canadian living in Columbus, Ohio. She would go to Thailand again in a heartbeat. Visit her at Snapdragon Ink. My Let’s Go made the traditional Thai massage sound like an hour of innocent bliss that I would not want to miss. At 150 baht – …
It was mid August 1977. Summer had fewer days ahead then it had behind and I had precious little time to find a new school to attend. A year commuting to a local New Jersey state college as a freshman left me wanting a real college experience… A quad, dorms, more girls and a meal plan. …
“I’ve got something for your protection”, M. told me. “Come to my room… “ I eyed him skeptically. But hey, following a guy to his room… I was under a dark sky, early, early morning in Roatan, an island off the Caribbean coastline of Honduras. “Por que não?” (Why not?). I was wondering if I …
“You see that girl? She dyed her hair for this trip. And that one? I guarantee she bought those shoes specifically for Las Vegas.” Julia* sipped her coffee as she eyed the people riding the elevator from the entrance of Mandalay Bay up to the concourse that connected the resort to Luxor, one of the …
My life turned upside down in December of 2008. I finished graduate school on a high note and I should have been happy but I wasn’t. No job awaited me, the economy had tanked and all I received for the next few months were letters of rejection, one after the other. I had a BA …