mikes writing
Michael Perry
Welcome to mikes writing! Just a little corner of some side of the web for me to do some writing. Mostly the site is a day to day endeavor of life here in Cambodia. Sometimes other places and a few coffees and some beers that came along.
August 2026
September 2026
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It will be Monday. Much like any other day. Except it's my wife's birthday. So I have this mission. I will be heading out for the usual coffee adventure somewhere and then find this floral shop right by a local market to get some flowers for her. It's a little adventure here that will take me a little time but...
Like I wrote previously this is my just about 5th year living in the land of wonder. Or Cambodia. All the time just about has been spent in either Phnom Penh or here in Siem Reap. What I've found this time is longevity. This sense of not just purposeless moving and then doing it again. I managed to meet my wife mere...
My wife made this fully loaded Khmer soup yesterday and fed these people in this small village. She told me about 20 people showed up to eat her food. This makes her very happy. I don't usually go to those events and she always still invites me. I have done similar things before and I've not felt comfortable and did...
For some reason. Maybe because it's beautiful weather today in Siem Reap and I have felt so good walking I need some dissipation. So I go downtown. Sit at viva! And have my share of their cheap draft beers. There's other places I could go. Where the cool expats hang. But I have been coming here for years. There's...
I actually decided to start this on Thursday afternoon after a wonderful walk, coffee, and some delicious fried rice my wife made. I often sink into some YouTube history documentaries that I find. Sometimes binge on The Ancients on YouTube or Spotify. Or just let a thing drone on like today about the world's...
Since a lot of my writing crosses over days, it’s always interesting to start something with no real idea where it goes. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my days become this blur. Like I could begin a thing now. Have some or no idea what it is I want to write and just see where things go. I never have tried...
Today I was sitting over my morning coffee. Looking around just a bit, I always feel so comfortable just having the coffee. Hearing the constant buzz of conversation in Khmer. I don’t understand most of it but the regulars there enjoy just the morning with their friends, talking, joking. I sit apart from them by a...
Living here this time for 5 years has been puzzling and illuminating both. A completely different culture brings about both things. Sometimes in rapid succession. There is no daily grind of things for me. Instead like most retirees here life just comes. But when it does come it brings both. Of course life really...
One of my desires for writing is to be able to just write. To sit down however many times a day I feel it and have the way to get things down. Lately it has been these meandering thoughts on retirement and how people I know settle for a life in America they dislike. They want change. Want to find something perhaps...
Today was one of the days I just knew. My wife offered some money so I took. And then I went for a beverage of my choice. Enter beer. And then I met a friend and we talked and I knew I would have one more. So I sit. Sit and drink. Sit and think. The waitress smiles. She knows. It's one more until I leave.
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