- 10 Nov, 2025 *
I wanted to basically restart or reboot the writing just a bit. I loved writing on 11ty but I guess I wanted something simpler that would not involve a few moving pieces. I also cannot just be without writing. I’m used to exploring ideas, random BS, and other stuff whenever I really want. Writing is not some thing to be scheduled and timed for me. It is more like sitting down at a Khmer coffee shop or in the mornings before going and feeling around and then a thing lands. Often …
- 10 Nov, 2025 *
I wanted to basically restart or reboot the writing just a bit. I loved writing on 11ty but I guess I wanted something simpler that would not involve a few moving pieces. I also cannot just be without writing. I’m used to exploring ideas, random BS, and other stuff whenever I really want. Writing is not some thing to be scheduled and timed for me. It is more like sitting down at a Khmer coffee shop or in the mornings before going and feeling around and then a thing lands. Often the one thing somehow becomes another and I change out writing from the MacBook to my iPhone when I get going.
It is the same with my daily notes. These diaries or journals or whatever cover the living, thoughts, finding, losing. I tend to write them longer because I always feel I have something to say in them about life or things we do.
Casting about and deciding
I spent a day looking at some of the writing and while I loved the doing of it, I could not find a reason to just spit out all that again. I wanted to find new detritus to poke at here. And a new home to do it on that would be flexible and easy and let me just write how I like.
So that’s what this thing is all about really. Casting about for a thing or things, maybe finding different things, and then spending moments from morning to whenever writing them. I always think I will write less often but I hate scheduling and writing draft posts. I would rather just write and see where it ends up. It does make the whole thing seem both random and pleasurable to me. I measure or manage relatively few things these days. Maybe really none. I managed and measured for over 20 years doing IT Program Management and got thoroughly tired of it.
So that’s what there is of it really and how I just like to write it all and see where it goes. I think there will be some measure of posts on daily life in Cambodia. I also write and love to write on Vietnam which has always been this favored place to me. Hanoi particularly has been this source for me for finding the most wonderful, funny, strange and compelling places there.
Hope you enjoy the words.