Practical Paradise

By Richard Boughton By and large, my impression of the Indonesian people in general, and of the Balinese people in... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Familiarity breeds contempt, as the old saying goes (to which Mark Twain added “and children”). I don’t... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Here’s something we never get tired of hearing about: the weekly, twice weekly, or thrice weekly “cop... Read More →

By Richard Boughton In the old Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau classic The Odd Couple, there is a scene where Felix Unger... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Three times in a handful of mornings I have been visited by a dragonfly at my table... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Last Saturday at about 2 in the afternoon, I had the not-so-rare privilege of becoming a Bali... Read More →

By Richard Boughton The first and most important thing to remember about driving the roads of Bali is that in... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Recently an Englishman arrived in my neighbourhood in Biaung. He moved into a house just a couple... Read More →

By Richard Boughton Sitting at the patio table at the front of my yard I watch two boys ride by... Read More →

By Richard Boughton What is a bule? Where did this word come from and what does it really mean? This... Read More →