Tag: Accidentally

“Why are some people so much happier than others?” This question didn’t come up in one of my philosophy seminars but, unexpectedly, in Portuguese class. We’d been talking about the pretérito mais-que-perfeito do conjuntivo (the past perfect subjunctive) an...

[This is the second post of two telling my story of how my life changed during one day in Bangkok. The first part brings you the context for this post:] So, I had entered the big ECC building (English and Computer College) in search of a teaching job so that I could avoid an early retur...

At 4.30pm on Saturday 7 September 1991, an Aeroflot plane from Moscow touched down on the runway of the old Bangkok Airport of Don Muang, making that familiar ‘squirting’ sound as rubber hit tarmac. On it was me. Weeks of anticipatory excitement had been increasingly building up in...

My alarm clock was pink. She came from Sears with the pack of undershirts they gave me for Christmas in the 3rd grade. I don’t know what happened to that alarm clock, but I can tell you that I held onto, and continued to stitch up the holes in those undershirts until the relationship ended whe...