“Where your mind goes your intention goes”  – Craig Hamilton

Ever since November, when I first returned to Chiang Mai, my mind has been focussed on obtaining a copy of the Bangkok Post. For the past few years, it hasn’t been readily available in the restaurants, hotels and tourist information sites where I used to find it. I was beginning to think that it had gone the way of many newspapers in these times… extinct like the proverbial dodo.  I eventually found one copy in a small cafe which was nowhere near where I am staying. Since the odds seemed to be stacked against me for getting my hands on that one available copy in that distant cafe, I was about to give up my search. I told myself that having a break from news back home in Canada wasn’t such a bad thing. I could live with that for awhile. However, I did regret not knowing what was happening here inThailand. Continue reading →