Eight Thousand Dollars

"D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to...

Three days ago I attacked a nest of wasps.  I was hacking out a trench between two mounded planting beds that, by appearance, hadn’t been at...

I am a man and Nui is a woman and so of course I drove the motorcycle home, in spite of the fact that she knew the way, I didn’t, it was dar...

For the last two days I have planted rice, first in my host’s fields and then in the field of his friend.   I have been walking barefoot, ca...

I loitered in Chang Mai for almost a week; wandering between one-dollar-eateries, indulging in the occasional banana shake, and repeatedly s...

After two weeks on the farm it was clearly time to go.   When I arrived I was greeted by a total of 4 WWOOFers and I had expected that numbe...

The farm is still the farm, but things have changed since March.   Pets have died and been replaced, projects have been abandoned, and torre...