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I guess as good a title as any. Lately I’ve enjoyed the writing being just how it is. The blog has become this entry point for me in my daily life. It gets s...
Well here it is Saturday night. I watched most of this really cool HistoryHit archeology video on prehistoric Scotland. The stories and reasons why Orkney be...
An acquaintance here asked me what things we were doing since last we met. They do “things”. Dinners out. A drink in a bar. Coffee together and talk. These t...
Today was a really good day for both I think. I had felt tired all morning so when I went for coffee downtown by the river, I felt I would probably not do a ...
Full disclosure. I’m starting this Friday. Kinda realizing I will likely write on this until tomorrow. This is the start of this thing called weekend. I comm...
I went out last night and had some beer at the usual place. There are two of them actually and within blocks of each other. Each offers the same menu far as ...
For whatever reason, I bailed this afternoon. Now you will find me almost at Pub Street. Drinking. Less wondering. Trying desperately to sit and not think. T...
Welcome back. This is a few days of writing really. I started this on Monday before we go. It gives me a place to just write until Wednesday when we go for t...
Its Monday. One of my favorite breakfasts these days are these rolls my wife gets at our local market. Cambodia makes some fine pastries and baked goods. The...
Some time ago or many daily blogposts earlier I changed to bearblog to do my writing. There were numerous potential reasons for this but only a few real ones...
Full disclosure. I’m starting this Friday. Kinda realizing I will likely write on this until tomorrow. This is the start of this thing called weekend. I comm...
This morning started with a basic idea of walking at home. Finding a friendly place for coffee and sitting. Not to be. My wife decided we should go to a favo...
This seems so long ago yet I remember the reasons. I had been living in Da Lat Vietnam for awhile. Enjoying the central highlands and the coffee and nature a...
Last night went out for some adulting. I met up with my almost friend Bill. An expat living here for about 10 years. He’s from America so it’s nice to have h...
It’s a Thursday morning here and the weather has been warming up. Always have a choice in the morning of heading downtown to a favored coffee shop and then w...
Some days the walk seems to do itself. Like I just go along for the ride. Today ended up cooler out when I started. I had felt kinda tired but not new I had ...
By the time I publish this it will be Saturday. Now it’s Friday night and I felt like writing. Usually that’s all it takes is to feel like writing something....
The last two nights have been this recurring problem. I’ll be tired early because I do my stuff each day. So I feel ready to conk out at 9. This is a big mis...
Since we got back from Battambang, been wanting to just have my daily things done. I like getting out and walking in the mornings. A stop somewhere for coffe...
In my daily reads I like to find the things that seem to speak to a thing I do not for the reasons influencers tell me but because it’s something I must do i...
Every day for me is coffee time. I love the going out and walking and then visiting a coffee shop in the neighborhood to just sit and people watch, maybe do ...
I enjoy writing daily here and starting the mornings with the room dark and the daily journal getting whatever words come their way. Today I decided I had to...
For the last few days, I’ve felt this need to change some things out. I wanted to find this simpler and easier way to write. Being an old retired guy living ...
Lately things have been nicer and different here. I really enjoy just the going each day. I think if all this had some purpose or lofty intent, I would not e...
It’s February now so we are edging toward the hot season here which then moves on to rainy season. The days now are warmer. Gone are the cool evenings where ...
Sometimes this desire of wanting to be away from the usual social issues around the house is almost overwhelming to me. It’s like every day I start with the ...
Yesterday was one of the days I just went. I really enjoyed that. I found this bakery here I thought I lost. They make the best banana bread ever. One soft a...
I love going to Angkor Wat for a day. Sadly we have not been in awhile. So I cast backwards at my last time. We spent the day there with our mom wandering th...
Something of an update. I started writing this a few hours or maybe a day ago. Some of the things always come to me when I get a thing done and I get that in...
Today I had to just leave. So I went to pub street. Well almost on pub street. Like my usual forays kinda hit then miss. So I drank a bit. Wrote a bit. Ended...
I walked some nice walks in Battambang I felt. All four days felt nice to just go but for whatever reason the one day off when we rode the van back had this ...
I’ve been here on bearblog for a bit. Since I write most every day I get a daily sense of what is working for me, what I really like, things which seem not s...
Today after the required morning stop where my wife likes going for coffee, it’s my turn. So I find my way to Lab Coffee. A peaceful interlude up some stairs...
It’s Tuesday and I guess somehow I missed writing on the blog yesterday. Not due to lack of wanting. Ended up though doing nothing after walking in the morni...
I manage to hear a variety of stories from people here. I don’t know why it is but people will stop and talk to me. I’ve managed to get a few different stori...
It’s a Saturday and sitting here at coffee makes words form. Sometimes it’s like this rush. I feel this need to just get things I feel down. It never matters...
Today another day finding a place to walk to for my morning coffee. It’s Coffee Space this morning. A nice walk from our hotel. Finding new places for coffee...
Being back here gives the mornings to just go. Often the writing takes over while I sit at some coffee spot. I watched a few of the vloggers that live or ret...
Coming back today was this few hour trip. The minivan was very comfortable. My wife let me know she would not be cooking so I opted for a tuktuk ride to down...
Sometimes I just don’t feel like walking. I start with some excuse. Like not wanting to do the thing. I never feel forced into it or feel some guilt if I don...
Last night it was beer out. I always end up at Viva! restaurant off of pub street. There I sit and ponder and the beer costs $0.75 each. I know many of the f...
Today decided to just go wherever. Found these streets that were happy to comply. They led me down and around and finally to the river. Then back to the beau...
For whatever reason these days I wake up a little after 4am. I don’t like that much. What I do like is starting writing things like this or my daily journal ...
Today was a really nice walk. Ended at this shoe store to get new walking shoes since it’s been about a year and a few pair of cheap shoes that failed. My wi...
I really like writing every day. The blog seems to just come naturally but often I find this thing I touch in my journal. The daily journal is the kickstart ...
Along with walking and writing more, there’s coffee. Every day is a day to just go for me. Siem Reap is an adventure in coffee culture and finding new and vi...
I don’t write much in the way of app reviews or comments. One of the things I’ve just settled on is some method of reading RSS which seemed it never would ch...
One of our favorite and perhaps easiest getaways is the city of Battambang. I’ve lost track how many times we’ve gone but I just walk there, do coffee, eat. ...
One of our favorite and perhaps easiest getaways is the city of Battambang. I’ve lost track how many times we’ve gone but I just walk there, do coffee, eat. ...