I don't blog much anymore, too busy writing. When I do blog, its at http://sitka.blogspot.com/

Day 1
The carcasses of half-finished buildings are scattered all around, the dead husks of the 1997 Asian economic collapse. Their bare concrete and rebar bodies lay like dried up insects, thick on the ground. For some reason, the rebar sticking up all raw and naked makes me think of mosquito legs and cockroach antenna.

That's the way of it, I guess, boom or bust. Back in 1996, it was boom, baby, all boom. [...]

A good friend of mine is gone now. He died a couple of days ago, and I already miss him. For him, there are no last respects, at least in my lifetime. I will continue to respect him, and should I live to be 84, I hope to be as lucid and passionate as Kurt Vonnegut.

We did it: we created zoeshire.com! It's very exciting: I've been wanting to create this web site for years.
So... here we are.