The Vernon Journal

It’s the season to celebrate the new rice harvest in Akha villages. It is difficult to describe all the sights and sounds and smells that you experience in the village, but we wanted to show you a small glimpse into the festival at Mae Salong. Here we have some of our neighbors preparing one of [...]

Lori is at a women’s retreat in Chiang Mai for the weekend. While I am enjoying this time to myself, my major concern with her absence revolves around food. I’ve been married six years to a great cook who is much more health conscious than I am. This has resulted in a helpless husband when [...]

As a kid I remember eating fried rice from the Chinese restaurant in the food court at the local mall. I loved it, but it always baffled me. How they actually accomplished the “frying” of the rice, I could never figure out. Eventually, I concluded that it must be done in the same way that [...]

Oh, the joys of illiteracy! Take our experiences yesterday. We were looking for breakfast and ended up in a 7-11 (finding this to be the least “risky” of the available options… we’re still pretty new at all of this). We settled on two strawberry yogurts and a bag of plain white dinner rolls. But I [...]