Month: April 2016
Posted on April 26, 2016
Losing My Religion (in India)
Kerala in April was a furnace of diabolical proportions, the air a humid stew. The locals wouldn’t stop telling us each day how unusually warm it was. (Yes, we’d noticed.) If Kerala truly is “God’s Own Country” as the state …
Posted on April 24, 2016
Trying Out The Tabla in Kochi
One of the things that I have been paying particular attention to as we travel to different countries are the different instruments and musical styles that we hear. In Thailand, I got to try a salaw, which is …
Updated on June 10, 2016
The Revolution Starts Now
The day I turned forty-five, almost exactly double my age since the last birthday I celebrated in Sri Lanka, a bus weaved us along the narrow ridges that lead to Sri Lanka’s hill country. We were volunteering for …
Updated on April 7, 2016
Finding Balance in Kataragama
So far we have been out of the country for 101 days. Just over three months. At times, we are starting to get tired of each other and our tiny rooms. But we have also started paying attention to small things …
Updated on April 4, 2016
Caution: Elephant Crossing!
Here in Sri Lanka it is really hot, especially in Colombo. Once we left the big city, though, the heat wasn’t quite so bad. After Colombo, we went to the beach at Mirissa where we took surfing lessons, and then …
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