In 2010, I came to Rangoon, Burma, as a tourist for the first time. A few weeks later, I had returned as an English teacher at an international school. I stayed for two years absorbing life in the classroom and in Burma’s cities and villages. My life has been filled with travel to fascinating places, but my time in Burma was especially well spent in learning the stories and seeing the sights that contained centuries of culture and history. These stories from the heart make me smile and I hope you will find them equally entertaining. Larry Welch