Exchange Rates Don’t Always Mean Currency

I am taking a course in Creative nonfiction for fun and I wrote this for it.  It’s a commentary on my trip to Thailand a year or so ago.
I’m the last out of the happy room, the Thai pit stop place.  As I step away from the long palm-shaded building smelling of disinfectant and gardenia [...]

Hawaii bound

In a fortnight’s time I have the good fortune of heading off to Hawaii for a couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to visiting places where traditional Hawaiian music is performed. I love listening to the ukuleles and steel guitars. Aside from the music, I plan to go on various excursions, visiting the many tourist [...]