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.
Quotable
But when we are led by Nature’s hand down a gentle and virtually imperceptible slope, bit by bit, one step at a time, she rolls us into this wretched state and makes us familiar with it; so that we find no shock when youth dies within us, which in essence and in truth is a harder death than the complete death of a languishing life or the death of old age; inasmuch as the leap is not so cruel from a painful life as from a sweet and flourishing life to a grievous and painful one. — Michel de Montaigne, The Essays