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The Journal of a Raucous Expat Living in Rural Thailand

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This is a cooking-video post, which I haven’t done in quite a while. At just over 16 minutes, it may be a little long, but I made it that way for a reason. Recently, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the potatoes Thailand produces—what I call Thai potatoes. They’re yellow-fleshed potatoes, but…

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Good, nice little late morning. I just poured—let me see—three truckloads of concrete, about five cubic meters each. So that’s roughly eighteen yards in American terms, all for the front yard driveway and parking lot. I had the guys working it, and it was pretty cool. I have a separate video specifically about that. What…

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Greetings from my plastic Adirondack chair overlooking the front yard. This video is going to be—I honestly don’t even know what it’s going to be. But let’s get started. August is historically, by far, the rainiest month in this region of Thailand. We just hit September 1st or 2nd, so we’ve gone over the hump.…

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I feel like I owe you a post. It’s been a while. I’ve been out here in rural Thailand, doing all sorts of things. If you want to follow the blow-by-blow, the best places are my X feed and my YouTube channel. What I have for you today is something that’s already up on both…

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My last post here was about the governor of Massachusetts, surrounded exclusively by a gaggle of women, signing a state bill into law that permits women to kill babies right up to the moment of birth. I suppose the next logical step on that road is already obvious. We hear endless blather about postpartum depression…

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