The Long Commute To The Garden – Working Really Close To Home

I spend half of each year in Chiangmai, Thailand. The part of the year I’m in North America I’m always trying to recreate the experience of working in my garden with a view of Doi Suthep from my backyard office. Have you ever looked out the window of your home office on a beautiful day and thought to yourself “I [...]

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Facebook Marketing And The Two Jonathans

If you’re interested in jumping on the Facebook Advertising bandwagon and need good advice on how to leverage the best advertising platform since Google then I highly recommend getting your hands on anything from the two Jonathans. Jonathan Budd and Jonathan Volk that is. Budd is a Network Marketer. Volk is an Affiliate Marketer. They both know what they’re talking [...]

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My Frontyard in Chiangmai

I snapped this photo a few weeks ago in my front yard in Chiangmai. Today I’m in Canada and there’s frost on the ground.

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Samlors, Keyboards and Books

This is Pi Nok – he’s a Samlor driver in Padet, a neighborhood in Chiangmai. His is a dying profession. You rarely see Samlors anymore – and when you do it’s typically a very old woman coming back from the market.  The world is changing so rapidly these days.  It’s hard to keep up. Maybe not keeping up is the [...]

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A Walk in the Woods

I’m visiting my parents in Lanark, Ontario for a few weeks. Today I took a walk in the woods out back of their house.

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Pattern Recognition, Tofu and Sobriety
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Recently, I swore off alcohol and meat for a 30 day cleanse. It’s been 45 days and I’m thinking I may just keep going until Christmas. I miss my pints but don’t miss the meat and I’ve never felt better. Okay, I’ve felt better, but I feel really good. I seem to be able to recognize patterns better.

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Stalking the Wild Experience
Samoeng Farm

About six months ago a friend and I leased a small cottage in an Akha hill tribe village near Samoeng north of Chiangmai.

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Ricefields, Motorbikes and Dogs
Chiangmai Rice Field

I live in Chiangmai, Thailand part of each year. Each Saturday and Sunday morning my wife Oy and I hop on the motorbike and head down to the Hang Dong market around 6:00 A.M. for some market coffee and doughnuts. We take the backroads and pass through ricefields and I’m never disappointed. There’s just something about a ricefield that makes [...]

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