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The Real Singapore Sling

  • September 22, 2020
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John M. Edwards flies all the way to ex-Empire Changi Airport to try the zings and arrows of an authentic ancient Chinese secret called “Singapore Sling.”
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Flat and out in LA

  • September 22, 2020
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The hole in the Winnebago’s tyre is the size of a 50p coin and air is hissing out at an alarming rate. I’m alone in LA, lost in the sprawling ghetto somewhere between the rental office (shut now, of course) and the airport.
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Flat and out in LA

  • September 22, 2020
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The hole in the Winnebago’s tyre is the size of a 50p coin and air is hissing out at an alarming rate. I’m alone in LA, lost in the sprawling ghetto somewhere between the rental office (shut now, of course) and the airport.
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Sheena and the Geezer

  • September 22, 2020
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Antigua is a half hour dog-eat-dog drive from the girls’s school in Guatemala City, the school for which I volunteer and visit at least once yearly. I’ve yet to visit the IMA School without at least a little time spent in...
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Sheena and the Geezer

  • September 22, 2020
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Antigua is a half hour dog-eat-dog drive from the girls’s school in Guatemala City, the school for which I volunteer and visit at least once yearly. I’ve yet to visit the IMA School without at least a little time spent in...
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Singing the Church Camp Blues or Look, Ma! No Tan Lines

  • September 22, 2020
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Thirteen: an awkward age by anyone's definition. But when adolescence is coupled with peer pressure and the elevated expectations of devout Southern Baptist parents, life can become something akin to multiple personality...
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Singing the Church Camp Blues or Look, Ma! No Tan Lines

  • September 22, 2020
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Thirteen: an awkward age by anyone's definition. But when adolescence is coupled with peer pressure and the elevated expectations of devout Southern Baptist parents, life can become something akin to multiple personality...
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A Bird in Hand can hurt

  • September 22, 2020
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For an instant, which was time enough as my remaining life would be measured in instants, I reflected on how I had gone from a dedicated father and captain of his own ship to a drowning man at the mercy of a 14-year-old.
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A Bird in Hand can hurt

  • September 22, 2020
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For an instant, which was time enough as my remaining life would be measured in instants, I reflected on how I had gone from a dedicated father and captain of his own ship to a drowning man at the mercy of a 14-year-old.
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Kuantan, Malaysia

  • September 22, 2020
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At almost every seaside hotel with a swimming pool there is always Jacuzzi in the vicinity. The warm bubbling water entices all weary travellers to relax in it. Who would have thought this almost cost me my son’s life?
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