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on a whim | Mikes Thoughts

Moving to pika to write. the blog is here. I'll not be updating this blog going forward....

morning and writing and coffee | Mikes Thoughts

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Angkor Wat connections | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Saturday morning take | Mikes Thoughts

It’s my morning. Maybe my best times here are before people start going. From some arbitrary time most mornings, Cambodian people are out. Then there’s the s...

Khmer new years coming | Mikes Thoughts

Khmer New Years is upon us. This is the third new year we get to celebrate. This one with water and stuff and a lot going on downtown we will not end up doin...

Coffee and Life | Mikes Thoughts

Sometimes the act of just sitting with the coffee gives me this desire to go on. To write on things that perhaps I left behind or that somehow passed me by. ...

Blog | Mikes Thoughts

This is my writing place.

second brain optional | Mikes Thoughts

Today I decided with my first brain I shall go walk and have coffee somewhere. Like usual. I enjoy sharing the places I get to every so often on the fedivers...

Thursday coffee and ideas | Mikes Thoughts

Today I had other desires for coffee. I would have walked to this place I have not been for some time. Enjoyed the morning with their $1 iced americano. Thou...

the zibaldone | Mikes Thoughts

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 w...

Walking is my doing | Mikes Thoughts

We went for breakfast this morning to the new location of an old favorite place that used to be by the river. We really enjoyed the location by Siem Reap riv...

writing falters | Mikes Thoughts

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 ev...

Sunday at writing | Mikes Thoughts

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 cur...

enter Saturday | Mikes Thoughts

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 panc...

drinking beer and thinking | Mikes Thoughts

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 real...

another of those days | Mikes Thoughts

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 post...

journaling my everything | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Sunday Comes | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Disturbing things | Mikes Thoughts

Some things will forever disturb me living in Southeast Asia. I am not close to or friends with many expats. There are a few that I keep track of mostly by ...

back to whatever | Mikes Thoughts

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 w...

closing Battambang | Mikes Thoughts

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...

writing and talking | Mikes Thoughts

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 frien...

the Sunday force | Mikes Thoughts

Woke up this morning realizing I need to get away from the house. There is something here which sometimes just doesn’t feel right. My wife tries to do all th...

dwelling in solitude | Mikes Thoughts

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...

always an answer | Mikes Thoughts

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...

when family visits | Mikes Thoughts

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...

slow and summer | Mikes Thoughts

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 soci...

Playing flight delays | Mikes Thoughts

Supposed to already be at Siem Reap airport to get my wife’s daughter. Of course she got stuck in Thailand. Her connecting flight I guess had some kind of is...

afternoon blog post | Mikes Thoughts

Some number or other. I wrote this morning about the stellar almond croissant I did at spring coffee. Then I did this really nice walk and some yoga waiting ...

Monday and croissants | Mikes Thoughts

It’s one of my favorites on Monday. I walk down to Spring Coffee and partake of a warmed up almond croissant and coffee. Spring is one of my all time favorit...

Sunday morning in writing | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Saturday notations | Mikes Thoughts

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...

slowing down | Mikes Thoughts

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...

afternoons go better with beer | Mikes Thoughts

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...

coffee morning | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

Contact | Mikes Thoughts

Little life moments | Mikes Thoughts

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...

one day in Saigon | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Tuesday asides | Mikes Thoughts

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...

bread rolls and dragon fruit | Mikes Thoughts

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...

sleeping and almost sleeping | Mikes Thoughts

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...

writing and walking | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

Saturday Deliberations | Mikes Thoughts

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....

Friday things | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

walking today | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

this day starts | Mikes Thoughts

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...

To journal | Mikes Thoughts

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...

missing a day | Mikes Thoughts

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...

slow coffee takes | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Enjoying writing on Bearblog | Mikes Thoughts

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...

afternoon version of me | Mikes Thoughts

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...

downtown and away | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

Daily Things | Mikes Thoughts

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...

back to walking | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

Monday in Siem Reap | Mikes Thoughts

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...

back from Battambang | Mikes Thoughts

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...

the slow walk | Mikes Thoughts

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...

coffee space | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Friday in Battambang | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Battambang in a walk | Mikes Thoughts

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...

News and life and the Current River | Mikes Thoughts

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...

The everyday of writing | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

precursor to Battambang | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Monday morning | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

the bear experience | Mikes Thoughts

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...

beer and blogging | Mikes Thoughts

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...

Valentine’s Day soup | Mikes Thoughts

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...

coffee notes and special days | Mikes Thoughts

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...

walking and writing more | Mikes Thoughts

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...

next step and stop | Mikes Thoughts

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...

banana bread blogging | Mikes Thoughts

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...

doing my blog thing | Mikes Thoughts

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...

going to steps | Mikes Thoughts

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...

writing today | Mikes Thoughts

Stories in Cambodia Part 1 | Mikes Thoughts

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...

coffee time | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

to Battambang | Mikes Thoughts

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. ...

ends and starts | Mikes Thoughts

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 ...

New post | Mikes Thoughts

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...