Industrial Ballet
This post is written in response to A Word A Week Challenge: Industrial, which you can see more of here. In November, I visited Bangkok, where I used to live, for the first time in 11 years. Among the...
View ArticleThailand: kaleidoscope of patterns
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok Like Sara Rosso at The Daily Post, I am always inspired by the colourful, highly detailed and often surprising patterns of Thailand. This is the subject of my entry in The...
View ArticleAbout-face
This post is part of A Word A Week Challenge: Face, run by A Word In Your Ear. Akha hilltribe woman, Doi Suthep, Thailand, 1991, by © Caron Eastgate Dann, 2011. Acrylics on canvas board. I met and...
View ArticlePeacetime at home
Even if you can’t afford a trip to a beach like this at Phuket, Thailand, you can still take a vacation at home. Painting in PanPastels on board, ©Caron Eastgate Dann, 2012. This post is written in...
View ArticleThailand in my bookcase
Here’s a link to a guest post I have done this week for Novel Adventurers. I really enjoyed writing this post describing my collection of books about Thailand. Enjoy! Filed under: Thailand, Writing...
View ArticleWriters on Writing #1: Angela Savage
I’ve always wondered why the most dreadful crime, murder, is attractive to audiences, whether readers or TV/film viewers. None of us would want to have to deal with a murder in our own family, yet so...
View ArticleA hotch potch: pink frothy tea, stir-fried cucumber and an accidental recipe
Have a nice cup of (pink and white frothy) tea, why don’t you? Here is what I tried this week: a “geisha green tea latte”… that was not green at all, but looked like a strawberry and vanilla...
View ArticleYou don’t see this too often
The other morning, I decided to have a fried egg for breakfast. I heated the pan, cracked the shell of a fresh, free-range organic egg, and…out popped a beautiful double yolk. I’ve seen this only once...
View ArticleNothing lasts forever
I have a couple of possessions that have been part of my everyday routine for a decade or more. They are not necessarily valuable or one-of-a-kind, or even very unusual. One of them was a Capricorn...
View ArticleA grand design
Here is my latest art work, based on a photo I took at the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. I’ve been to the Grand Palace at least 20 times, and it never ceases to amaze me with its vibrant colour,...
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