I am featuring random photos each week that pertain to my upcoming book, Echos of a Global Life. We left Burma when I was three and moved to Ithaca, New York. When I graduated from Nursery School, we moved back to Burma. After only one year, there was a coup and we had to leave. We took our time on the way back to the US and ended up in Rye, New York.

While living in Ithaca we traveled around the East Coast to Virginia and Washington DC with my grandparents.

That chair currently sits in my living room. I like it.

When I was five we moved back to Burma.

On the left is a Chinthe. A Chinthe is a Burmese “lion”. They don’t have lions in Burma so this was what they thought a lion might look like. They guard and protect the temples. In the background is the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon. On the right I am practicing my Burmese dancing.

That year we took a trip on the Irrawaddy River and spent some time at an elephant camp where I got to ride an elephant.

On the way back from Burma we stopped in Taipei.

And Tokyo