TAKING TIME OUT IN BANGKOK’S BENJASIRI PARK
The iconic gold coin greeting visitors at Benjasiri Park. Photo by Stephen Shaiken As peaceful and orderly as Bangkok may be compared to other cities throughout the world, it’s still a busy metropolis of more than ten million people. To quote the Eagles, sometimes you just want that “peaceful, easy feeling,” and you can find […]
BANGKOK’S GREEN MILE OFFERS A BREAK FROM THE BIG CITY
The Green Mile pathway. Photo Much as I love Bangkok, it’s easy to feel hemmed in and crowded in a sweltering city of over ten million, no matter how nice, orderly and friendly the inhabitants may be. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to find respite. The city is blessed with at least three major parks, filled […]
GETTING AROUND BANGKOK IS EASY
The first row of photos was taken at the Phrom Phrong BTS Station. BTS, or SkyTrain as it is affectionately known, glides above the busy streets of Bangkok, allowing public transit users to ignore the city’s world-class traffic. The second row was taken at the Sukhumvit MRT (subway) station, which goes many places the BTS […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH KEYBANGERS BANGKOK
Keybangers Bangkok, March 27, 2022. Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s been three years since I last met face-to face with Keybangers Bangkok, the writing group that has always nurtured and assisted me in countless ways. Some faces are familiar, others are new. Writers come from just about every corner of the globe: Romania, England , […]
BACK IN THAILAND AFTER THREE YEARS
Bingo Beach, Chonburi Province, Thailand, home of internationally acclaimed magician know as Dr. Penguin. Photo by Stephen Shaiken If any readers ever take the time to check out my biographic information on Amazon, Goodreads, this blog, or any of my novels, they’d see I “split my time between Tampa, Florida and Bangkok, Thailand.” That was […]
ONLY TRAITOROUS AMERICANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S INVASION
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Flag of independent Ukraine I can understand Americans don’t want war with Russia and they don’t want American troops in combat. I certainly feel that way, and there are other paths open to combat Putin. But what I cannot understand are those Americans who cheer on Putin and think we should […]
SOUND ADVICE FROM SYLVIA PLATH
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THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, BUT WEED ALSO HELPS
Israel’s experiment in socialism has been in deep trouble as the country moved from a developing agricultural society into a powerful force in the digital revolution, energy, intelligence gathering and security. Fortunately, medical marijuana saved the day for them and for the many patients achieving positive results. This also lays to rest the notion that […]
WHAT’S NEXT, THE YELLOW STAR? (Dutch Universities Goes Full Nazi)
This is in a country where less than eighty years ago, Jews were identified, forced to wear yellow stars, and thus were easy to round up and deport to concentration camps. Out of 100,000 Dutch Jews, less than 25,000 survived, the highest percentage and total number of Holocaust murder victims in Occupied Western Europe. What […]
NO MORE PROSELYTIZING IN SCHOOLS!
The other day I posted about a teacher in Tennesee who was proselytizing in a class on the Christian Bible, going so far as to tell students to “torture” Jewish people by writing and saying the name of G-d outside of prayer, because this is considered a horrific sign of disrespect to religious Jews. Below […]