Author: Kirin Taylor

When the World’s Not Watching

Posted August 31 by Kirin Taylor

I have been in Thailand for exactly 367 days now. Lately I count them like a kid waiting on Christmas because now I’m waiting on…

Easy to Say, Difficult to Prove

Posted August 27 by Kirin Taylor

I saw her from a distance. I was walking along a sidewalk in Bali when I noticed the skinny and frail woman in tattered clothing…

Home

Posted September 27 by Kirin Taylor

This morning I arrived by train in Thung Song, the city that will be my home for a year. Before I boarded the train last…

First Comes Love

Posted September 18 by Kirin Taylor

“Girl and boy sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes loves. Then comes marriage. Then comes a baby in a baby carriage.” Little girls ran…

The Pleasantest Sensation in the World

Posted September 6 by Kirin Taylor

According to travel writer and adventuress, Freya Stark, “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”…

The Hardest Part

Posted August 26 by Kirin Taylor

Tomorrow I am getting on a plane. I won’t play it cool and pretend to be perfectly fearless. I am not, in fact, I am…