Is There No Change of Death in Paradise?

Does ripe fruit never fall?

I'm writing from the balcony of a luxury condo in Hua Hin, described to me as the Palm Beach of Thailand. I'll be here for a couple of weeks, hoping to get bored and lonely and therefore be really productive. I have much writing to do, and while exciting travel to interesting countries is always fun, deadlines loom.

So I'm taking advantage of the generous offer of a friend to settle in here at what I'm calling the Hua Hin Writer's Colony (of one). This morning, for ...