What we already know about people wanting to move to Seychelles

I remember years ago seeing a cartoon in my ex-husband’s Playboy that pictured a tarted up babe with the look of a pro chatting to another saying, “I’m thinking of moving to another town and starting all over as a virgin.” Living on an island 1,000 miles from anywhere massive or densely populated, I have [...]

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Eeek! A shark: Poor baby

Steven Spielberg pretty much ruined the sea for me … a fact I have brought up with him on more than one occasion, and one for which he is not nearly as regretful as he should be … so I was more than thrilled when today I showed Sam the dorsal fin of a baby [...]

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Just when you think you’ve run out of stupid …

I know we’re all getting tired of the Miguel the Violent Nut Case story, but since he’s yet to run out of stupid, and since some readers have voiced interest in follow-up, there’s more. Sigh … Surprise, surprise … he’s taken down the offending post on his blog, done a rewrite he must think casts [...]

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Tourists: To go, or not to go?

Here’s an interesting dilemma to weigh … When a country has gone to hell in a handbasket, is it better to give it a wide berth or barge in and take a look around? This is the debate between the British Trade Union Congress (TUC) in conjunction with Tourism Concern Burma, and the Lonely Planet [...]

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Getting it wrong on AIDS in Africa

I’ve just read the most confounding bit of news I’ve seen in a while, and in a source that usually delivers it straight up, making it even more confusing. It’s this article in the Washington Post that sent me scurrying all over the Internet in search of corroboration and reason. The story is about George [...]

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The New Black

No, I’m not harkening back to the flap last year that had tacky t-shirts emblazoned with the what was either cleverly hip or cynically horrid “Adoption: the New Black”, but rather the REAL New Black, which is black. Yep. Black: The New Black. Blacker than black, this new black is amazingly cool to a science [...]

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The biggest nuts in the world, and other stuff to sell

For a couple of reasons … 1) I’m old and becoming ever more resistant to new ways of doing things, and 2) I live on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere … I have long managed to ignore a global phenomenon that has become part of the daily grist for the consumer mill [...]

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Answering questions on life in Seychelles

I’ve recently been contacted by a couple seriously considering a move to Seychelles, as this to them seems like the paradise they’ve been looking for. In trying to answer questions in all honesty and convey the true essence of life here … or at least the true essence of life here as I know it [...]

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Cambodian news is up …

The weekly wrap of news from Cambodia has been moved to Under One Roof, and this week’s is here.

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Teen pedophiles invade SE Asia

There is, reportedly, a new a popular new pastime for 18- to 20-year-old northern European men that is catching on and has many deciding to see more of the world, unfortunately; they are Asia’s new pedophiles. There is a virtual invasion by northern European men aged 18 to 20 whose arrival has expanded the pedophilia [...]

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