Andy Engelson is a writer and editor who lives in Hanoi, Vietnam. He's currently working on a novel and writing about the experience of raising a family in Vietnam. In a former life, he edited Washington Trails magazine for six years and before that wrote about art for Seattle Weekly. He hikes, he travels, he plays with his family, and he looks at stuff.
I asked him What do you do?
He smiled patiently, The typical American question. In Europe, they would ask, What are you doing? Or, What are you doing now?
What do I do? I listen, to the water falling. (No sound of it here but with the wind!) This is my entire occupation.
— William Carlos Williams, “Patterson”