I was going to polish off the last two installments in the When Helping is Hard series early this week, but then Cambodia happened. We’re here for four days on …

Three weeks after I arrived in Laos I went with Mike out to a village in Viengkham district. This trip was my introduction to The Hungry Months and The Blessings …

This story starts in May. In May, Mike was in Laos in the middle of his first seven weeks at his new job. I was in LA wrapping up my …

It’s been a week. For me, it’s been a week of finishing the draft, enjoying a brief high, then falling (temporarily, let’s hope) into a big black woeful hole of …

Last week our neighbor’s computer was stolen. His front door is less than ten steps from ours – his house is a mirror image of ours – and when he …