By Paul Hyde I agreed to do the Freedom Walk with my dad about a week ahead of time. I decided to go because we were going to do it in honor of my mom and of those survivors who did the walk as well. I was blessed not to be born during the Pol…
Walking hurts. I know people are curious, but too polite to ask how much I weight, so let me break the ice and offer it to you. In February I weighed 412 pounds. Eeek! Then I got exercising and on a special low-carb diet and when I started walking this morning I weighed 372 pounds. …
Today Noit led me to the very spot where she was held during most of her time as a slave of the Khmer Rouge. Though the houses were gone and new ones built, the waterways were dried up and the stench of death was gone, she led us exactly to the spot where her little…
In Bakan District in western Cambodia there is sacred shire that thousands of people give offering too each day. It is one of the most significant spirit beings which Khmer people revere and worship. The name is “Neak Taa Klang Meung”. It is a ancestral and territorial spirit. The origins of this spirit are actually…