Last year, we had an outing to the nearby mountains with some of our Thai friends.  As we walked along through the forest, they continued to point to the many species of plants and flora that were edible.  It seemed to me as if nearly everything around us could have been eaten.  This is not […]

  One day, after several months living in Isaan, I glanced at my feet and to my surprise, noticed a strange new growth from the sides of each one of my feet (I will spare you the picture!).  At first glance, I became quite concerned that these were either massive plantar warts, an infection, or […]

I was recently discussing the temptation and sin of man in the Garden of Eden with a small group of Isaan people.  I talked about how the serpent, which in the Thai Bible is the same word as snake, tempted the woman to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and […]