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Chasing Dreams

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How many people can honestly say they have chased a life-long dream. Although I wish that the answer is 100%, it likely isn’t. Unfortunately, most people are faced with real life and situations beyond their control. Dreams take a back seat to needs. It is tough to live in a world where most people are living one bad event away from ruin. I have lived a truly fortunate life; no question.  I have been given, by good fortune, the ability to chase dreams that were until very recently impossibilities. This time in Cambodia is a one in a million chance for me and I am again through a fair degree of luck able to get out there. The first and primary being looking for my family. I have already talked about that and although I have not made any major progress on this, the small wheels in my head have been spinning. At time getting traction and other just a wobbly spin. My dribs and drabs of smart are starting to develop into a plan for my return visit in the spring. Finding my family is...
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Finding Tevy

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In my book “The Love of My Mothers’ “, I follow the life of a woman named Tevy. From the early days of her life in Kampot Cambodia, to her starting a family with her husband Sok near Phnom Penh. We see her live through the horrors of the Khmer Rouge and see glimpses of her rebuilt life after freedom.  Tevy is my fixtional mother, made up of bits and pieces of my imagination, from my current vision of what life could have been, some historically based conditions and lastly scenes from my childhood as I would lay in bed, sometimes crying myself to sleep, imagining what she would have been like.  Tevy is the mother I created for myself, based largely on my wife.   I wasn’t trying to make Tevy perfect, but I also had no reason to not make her ideal.  The hardest part of creating her was giving her a reason to lose me with out placing the blame on her.  For those gymnastics you’ll have to read the book. I know that Tevy isn’t real and what she experienced isn’t ei...
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Bad Bands La Battambang

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​ Unlike my last trip two trips to Cambodia, this one is at least of my side of things not structured or completely laid out in an itinerary. There are not a bunch of sites that I want to see. For the first three days I was on my own, mainly adjusting to being home and finding my way around town…also trying to deal with the absence of my wallet, credit and debit cards and drivers' license. Oh…I didn’t tell you that? Yeah, in my rush to leave for the airport I left my wallet and all my cards at home and didn’t realize it until I was almost boarding the plane. So, after multiple ideas of how to get me cash, I figured out I could wire myself. So, I will be fine, just won’t be in possession of physical cards and my license for the entirety of my trip. Once people started arriving, things started to take shape. The meetings transitioned from greeting and getting familiarized to planning and training. We were preparing for our big event in Battambang (a city about three hours away fro...
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