Well, the Holidays are over and there are no longer any excuses for me not to write. So, forgive my absense from posting more on this blog. I’m involed in a long battle now with plot and scenes for PUSHING…
The Holidays are, oh, so over!!!
MARKET PLACE IN VIETNAM
This is a shot of an indoor market in Vietnam. There is no shelving in this place and the food products are stacked on top of each other or on cartons and are piled sometimes way above the normal reach.…
MURDER NEW YORK STYLE
I just got a short story published in a mystery anthology, “Murder New York Style”. I’d share with you at least the first page of my story, but there are strict publication rules that forbid replication of any of the…
WATER PUPPETS
We bought this fellow in a market place in Hanoi. He is a water puppet and he is called Happy Man. Water Puppets or Mua Roi Nuoc is a unique art form that began in the Red River Delta region…
TRAFFIC IN VIETNAM
Vietnam has no traffic lights, no stop signs and no traffic cops. As you can see from this photo taken last year in Hanoi at night the traffic is snaking along the streets without the aid of any signals. At…
IT’S APPLE PICKING TIME IN NEW YORK
Apples, native to Europe and West Asia, were introduced to North America in the 17th Century. There are approximately 7000 varieties of apples in the world today but only 100 are grown commercially, with an estimated one billion pounds of…