Mike's Thoughts
Mike's Thoughts
Michael Perry
Welcome to Mikes Thoughts. Mostly day to day ramblings on life in Cambodia or other places in Asia and beyond. I write on coffee, thoughts, ideas, whatever I decide. Hope you enjoy the stay.
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I was happening to be reading along on reddit which I still enjoy doing. Mostly these days I will use an RSS reader that shows a particular subreddit along with comments. News Explorer on Mac and iOS does this well. I don’t do analog...
Lately life has interrupted the desire to write about it. Too many events I am left to go noodle on. Or perhaps overthink as my wife claims. I look at the events and people like an examination of sorts. Perhaps like the old, the...
This morning started too early. I think before 430am. This bothers me greatly. I would like more and better sleep and it’s way too easy to just blame the current living conditions because I think it pervades how I feel, what I think, how...
Somewhere Friday just went. Most likely in some escapade of restless sleep. For whatever reason Saturday heralded an early morning and now my wife makes pancakes for me. I don't do breakfast so often so when I want, she happily does the...
Sometimes I admit to human weakness. Well probably often really. Lately I’ve felt this need. This desire to just go sit and drink beer downtown. Today I realized I needed to actualize that desire. So I went. I like going to sit at this...
Well skipped a few days of this. I missed all of you. Hope the bearblog discovery stuff is doing well. I kinda keep up since I subscribe to the trending posts to see what the movers and shakers are seeing. The recent posts I take a look...
I was reading Veronique’s’ blog about journaling and she made a wonderful statement about her journal being her companion. Lately I’ve found myself confiding more in it than ever. From mornings to evenings, out for coffee or just...
Probably a rather meandering and purposeless blogpost. Like most of the ones I write these days. Lately around the house has been stress and change. Both are necessary ingredients in life. Yet some people in the house (like my wife)...
The last few days seemed strange as I sit in spring coffee after a nice almond croissant. It’s been getting warmer to hot most days so that’s our indicator we are in hot season. It means I try to leave earlier to walk. The down side is I...
Today was a long day. Also very warm here reaching 40. Humidity made it seem sometimes hellish. I walk in weather like this sometimes because I have to. It’s this thing that needs doing and I am elected by my feelings and desires. And...
Here in Battambang finding a quiet moment to simply write or do my usual overthinking seems daunting. We went with my wife’s long lost daughter and her friends. It becomes a never ending social discourse on their lives before. What was...
One of my favorite morning reads is The Marginalian. This morning Maria writes on solitude and its force. As an aside using the Current Reader app I just set some reads I want in the mornings. Sometimes I save the piece because it either...
I was reading this article on a favorite essay source. This article talks about boundaries. How we get guilt and fear about simple things. Like deciding it’s okay to say no. Most of the times around the house and actually the last years...
The last few days and for weeks to come, family visits. Long lost family of my wife’s. For whatever reason, her daughter had left and ended up in Europe. Not to come back for two decades. She’s Cambodian but speaks no Khmer. What I’ve...
This morning after the usual and really disagreeable wake up before 4am, I knew I needed moments. With family visiting from Europe, there’s the press of social activities. People arranging. Some never ask. They assume. Dangerous to do...