Lita Ann Steinbring

OK, time to sit down and write. Ooh, a message — better check it. Hmm, this chair is having an argument with my back. Let’s move. I’ll just check whether I’ve had a reply to that email. Right then… Time to blow my readers’ minds. No pressure. ‘There is nothing to writing,’ said Hemingway. ‘All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ For many of us, standing desk enthusiasts excepted, the creative act isn’t an upright affair.

Thailand – ‘The Land of Smiles’, as the world knows it… A place blessed with warm sunshine yearly and people with hearts of kindness and sympathy. Every visitor to the kingdom returns home ecstatic to have experienced a land that is clearly filled with abundance, both agriculturally and geographically. Would it occur to them that underneath the warm sun and behind the smiles, there is a hidden discontent brewing within the workforce, due to cultural norms that have been active for generations?