Cooking the NYTimes and Other Assorted Retirement Activities

  It's coming up on the uniquely American time of year, Thanksgiving.  No matter you look, you'll see the motto, "Thankful.  Grateful. Blessed." emblazoned on just about everything. All I can tell you is that after spending a day and a half in Sihounkville, Cambodia, I will never be able to see those words without thinking about the many people we saw here who live in abject, unremitting, relentless, endless, pervasive poverty.  We should never, ever complain about our privileged, first world lives again. Like the other former Indochinese countries in Southeast Asia, Chinese and Indian influences helped form Cambodia's early culture.  It's a long, complicated, complex, dense history so perhaps you might like to click the link and read more about it.  Honestly, similar to what I found myself thinking about Viet Nam, a college major in Cambodian history might only begin to skim the surface.   In terms of more 'modern' day history, the Japanese occu...