This journal chronicles the year my wife and I lived in a wooden Khmer style bungalow in southern Cambodia beside the Kampot River. There are tributes to greatness...Fred Astaire & Jimmy Connors. An Anecdote concerning a pretender to greatness...Gore Vidal. Essays on writing and the turbulence of recent Cambodian history. Addressing the mysterious disappearance if Jim Thompson, the "Silk King of Thailand'. Also, the English painter, Francis Bacon. Humor predominates throughout.
