Author: Mark Egge

Raindrops kept falling on my head. But I didn’t sing a song about it. Instead, I bought an umbrella.

And the rains just keep coming. It’s really quite amazing to me. The river is some 6 or 7 feet higher than it was a week ago. No joke. This is the row of fortune-teller booths that I walk through every morning on my way to campus. I never really thought much of it until, […]

Banana Pancakes

Can’t you see that it’s just raining?There ain’t no need to go outside. but baby… Rain falls, rain fall, cars stall.Trees topple. Basements fill. Full.Traffic’s stuck and people hurry, hide,Duck, dodge. An army of umbrellas.And they say: Has it stopped yet?When will it stop? Will it stop? But the sky! Closer. Full. Soft. Grey–that beautiful, […]

Milieu

There are two parts to this. The following post about my weekend, and an announcement that follows many of you may not be too surprised to at. I need a new toothbrush. This weekend I went with my friend Amp and several other members of the Thammasat Speaker’s Union to Amp’s weekend house in Kanchanaburi […]