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Sailing Phuket
There are many, many, many places I'd like to explore. My exploration bucket list isn't so much a list as a novel - and a novel somewhat larger than War and Peace at that. But sometimes an excuse is...
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Ko Phuket - Low Tide
Because sometimes you just don't need a dock and you weren't planning on going anywhere anyway...
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Seatbelts Optional: On the Road in Phuket
We rented a car when we were in Phuket. After looking at tuktuk and taxi prices, it just made sense to rent, since we were going to be going from Point A to Point B and Point C and back again and then...
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Phuket has flair!
Whether it's spirit houses, temples, or street lamps, garden decorations, or houses, they know how to add flair to things in Thailand. It makes North American architecture seem boring in comparison....
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Ladies and Gents!
Sometimes the washroom signs didn't have the words. It nearly got me into trouble once.
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Phruit in Phuket
If I had taken pictures of all of the fruit in Phuket, I'd... have a lot of pictures.This freakish looking fruit is a mangosteen, which grows on a tropical evergreen tree - and I could eat them...
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Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na...
...ARTMAN!Can you believe this stuff if for sale? Who in their right mind would want to part with it?! I would totally keep a giant, metal, long-torsoed, short-legged, Horus guard in my living room....
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Dunkin', Dunkin', Everywhere a Dunkin'
Remember when I went to Russia? I was so pleased that I was able to read the Dunkin' Donuts sign.Beyond the obvious part that says "Dunkin' Donuts", I have no idea what these Dunkin' Donuts signs at...
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Phuket Wedding
Well, Phuket is certainly a beautiful place to have a wedding... ... but it's quite hot, as the official wedding photographer can attest.As can the best man wearing a wool suit. What was he thinking?...
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Seoul-Incheon Airport: Best Airport in the World?
Seoul-Incheon airport is the very best I've ever been to. It has free massage chairs, free showers, a cultural museum display, free places you can actually sleep, free, decent Internet, and much, much...
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Spontaneous Human Combustion and the Whitehorse Ketogenic Connection
There are at least three kids in Whitehorse using the ketogenic diet to control intractable epilepsy. One of them is mine.Because Jade has been on the diet for almost four years now (during which time...
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As of yesterday, Fawn and I have been married for ten years. A lot has happened since we got married and a lot has changed. What hasn't changed is that I keep loving her more every day than I did the...
View ArticleSomething else to remember.
Four years ago today, I watched a woman catch a baby that was falling from the insides of another woman.One tends to remember things like that.Happy birthday, Halia!
View ArticlePreviously on Michael's Meanderings…
I didn't quit blogging, but I took a much-needed hiatus. The reasons were numerous and varied, but mainly it just started to become too much like a chore, and I already have enough of those. So, I'm...
View ArticleJade: 5 Years on the Ketogenic Diet
In May of 2008, when she was about 2-and-a-half years old, my eldest daughter, Jade, started having seizures. About a month later, she was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy. Medications...
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Pictures from my iPod
My iPod went missing a long, long time ago. I thought I'd lost it in the snow somewhere. It was eventually discovered under the cushions of our old green couch.I don't often carry a proper camera...
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Anniversary Math
1 + 1 = 11?1 person plus 1 person equals 11 happy years, that is! Happy Anniversary to my wonderful wife!
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She is...
She's stubborn and determined and imaginative and playful and clueless and curious and is always experimenting with the world around her. She's friendly and helpful and and rambunctious and smart and...
View ArticleHalia's 10 Helpful Tips for Good Table Etiquette
This evening, we had a discussion on good table manners. Halia, age 5, had these helpful tips to share:Don't hum.Don't pick your nose.Don't touch your eye.Don't touch your bum or your vulva or your...
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Kissing Ketosis Goodbye?
Around that time that Jade's seizures were at their worst, I wrote this entry on Finding Strength. (Go ahead and read it. This post will be waiting for you when you get back.) That was a little over...
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The Tooth Fairy Mystery
The moment the 7am alarm went off in my room there was a knock at the door. It was Jade."The Tooth Fairy didn't come and take my tooth."Ah, yes, Jade's second tooth. The tooth we thought would never...
View ArticleWe were not alone.
We didn't really know how to ask for it, but when Jade was having her seizures and when we were struggling to beat them, we had a lot of help. It came out of the woodwork. It came from friends,...
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Nanuq
The first time I saw him was nearly fifteen years ago on Hallowe'en night. Fort Liard's kids were making their rounds on a snowy night, going door-to-door collecting candy. A tiny white pup struggled...
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