Ti Ti

During winter break from teaching in 2013, I went to Myanmar/Burma with the hope of connecting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, often called the Lady. I had wanted to interview her for years. Even though I didn’t realize my long-held dream, the four weeks in Myanmar was the best trip overseas in my entire life.

While touring Inle Lake, Moh Moh, my tour guide, had to pick up some material at her home about where I would be going after leaving that part of Myanmar. Interestingly, Ti Ti, her nine-year-old daughter, was on vacation from school. When I walked into their living room, I has greeted with this question, “Hi. My name is Ti Ti. Do you want to play some games?”

We are playing Scrabble.

I said that I went to Myanmar to see the Lady, but I discovered a young lady. When I left her home, I also found my granddaughter. That was in 2013. Since then, we have emailed each other many times. During that time, I again attempted to contact Aung San Suu Kyi. Despite not being able to communicate with her, I still returned to Myanmar to spend a week with Ti Ti and her family.

Ti Ti

In the four years between my visits, Ti Ti changed a great deal. She has a long list of things on her résumé. Beyond being brilliant, she is a magician, poet, a caring person, protective of her younger sisters, and always wants to help anyone. In addition, she is an extremely well-informed tour guide.

Therefore, I asked Ti Ti to help my readers to better understand the many tourist sites in Myanmar. This section of my webpage is devoted to informing you about Ti Ti’s country.



Ti Ti and Her Smile... Ti Ti and Her Smile... What a Gift 10/24/25
The Issue of Paying Homage The Issue of Paying Homage It's a Two-way Street 10/17/25
The Haunting Question The Haunting Question Do You See You? 09/17/25
When Facing Failure When Facing Failure What Can You Do? 09/08/25
Afraid of Not Dying Afraid of Not Dying The Reality of Living 07/02/25
Immigration 101 Immigration 101 A Class that Our TACO President Failed 06/30/25
What Troubles Me What Troubles Me In My Twilight Years 06/13/25
Legends Often Morph into Facts The World About Which I Dream Often Isn’t the World in Which I Live. 06/11/25
My Artistic Eye My Artistic Eye Doesn’t Like an Overcrowded Mess 05/30/25
The Little One The Little One Has Grown Up 05/28/25
Becoming I Am Legend Becoming I Am Legend In My World 05/26/25
The Less You Have, The More You Give The Less You Have, The More You Give An Important One-Liner 05/05/25
The Reciprocity of Teaching The Reciprocity of Teaching A Mirror Image 04/30/25
Cast Away Awaken Me Cast Away Awaken Me Who Are the Cast Aways Today? 04/14/25
We Need to Heed the Warnings We Need to Heed the Warnings.... Quite Early in the Morning 03/31/25
I Wish I Was Still Teaching Art History I Wish I Was Still Teaching Art History But Why? 03/24/25
I Am Legend I Am Legend And the Darkseekers 03/14/25
Addressing the Cancer of Discrimination Addressing the Cancer of Discrimination “If Only We’re Brave Enough To Be It.” 03/07/25
Lessons We Need To Learn Lessons We Need To Learn And Not Fade into History 03/05/25
Reflections on My Surgery Reflections on My Surgery Talk About Being Lucky 02/28/25
I Had a Bad Cold Last Month I Had a Bad Cold Last Month What’s the Big Deal? 02/17/25
The Truth of My Mantra The Truth of My Mantra It Is in Giving That We Get. 02/10/25
Legends Often Morph into Facts Johnny Appleseed Past and Present 01/24/25
It All Started with And Ti Ti’s Scarf It All Started with And Ti Ti’s Scarf And Ends with My Golden Kata 01/22/25
My Birthday Gift My Birthday Gift Who Is Happier? 01/17/25
Happy 6th Birthday to A Ngal Lay Happy 6th Birthday to A Ngal Lay My Great Granddaughter 01/06/25
It's a Long, Long Road It's a Long, Long Road From Which There is No Return 11/04/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Linking Up with My Family During Thadingyut 10/21/24
What’s With the Water? What’s With the Water? Water, Water, Everywhere 10/14/24
Two Worlds and Two Realities Two Worlds and Two Realities Pick Your Choice 09/23/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts The Virgin King Enjoying Life in Another World 09/20/24
Another Parallel Another Parallel With James Earl Jones and Me 09/18/24
Discovering a Mentor Discovering a Mentor In a Field of Dreams 09/13/24
Another Set of Photos Another Set of Photos For Ti Ti from PaPa Al 09/09/24
We Are All Teachers We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach 08/28/24
The Snowman vs Allen The Snowman vs Allen How To Change the World 08/23/24
Replying to Ti Ti’s Request Replying to Ti Ti’s Request For a Photo of PaPa Al 08/09/24
You Know that You Are Getting Old You Know that You Are Getting Old When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans 08/05/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Lessons Learned in Former British Colonies Like America, South Africa, and Myanmar 07/31/24
The Third Old Man The Third Old Man Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life 07/29/24
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let the World Know It is Snow’s Birthday! 07/22/24
How to Become Rich How to Become Rich Without Any Much Money 07/01/24
How Will We Be Remembered How Will We Be Remembered Another Either / Or Essay 06/28/24
I’m Leading Death Again I’m Leading Death Again On My Dancefloor of Life 06/10/24
A Poem for Ti Ti A Poem for Ti Ti Who is Now Twenty 06/02/24
The Flying Dutchman The Flying Dutchman Then and Now 05/03/24
Field of Dreams Field of Dreams A Haunting Return 04/24/24
Immortal Beloved Immortal Beloved Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine 04/19/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts What I Discovered When I Wasn’t Looking 04/08/24
Legends Often Morph into Facts Träumerei Then and Now 03/15/24
Bo Bo Gyi Bo Bo Gyi And His Advice to His Granddaughter 02/19/24
Snow and Fatty Snow and Fatty Are Following in Ti Ti’s Footsteps 01/19/24
Donald the Dumb Believes Donald the Dumb Believes Some Really Dumb Things 01/15/24
First, There was Jacques Cousteau First, There was Jacques Cousteau Now, There is Ti Ti 01/12/24
What’s It All About... What’s It All About... The Paradox of Life 12/29/23
Legends Often Morph into Facts Unexpected Events Can Create Opportunities for Greatness 12/25/23
Legends Often Morph into Facts PaPa Al’s Reply To Ti Ti’s Posting, I Love Education 12/15/23
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night A Lesson Taught by Dylan Thomas 11/06/23
Breath of Fresh Air Breath of Fresh Air From My Web Administrator 10/20/23
Me and My Echocardiogram Me and My Echocardiogram Beyond a Diagnosis 10/18/23
Ti Ti, the Artist Ti Ti, the Artist The Georgia O’Keeffe of Myanmar 10/02/23
My Second Shot My Second Shot Or the First Insurrection 09/22/23
My World of Xanadu My World of Xanadu Another Personal Parallel Essay 09/20/23
Tyson’s Two Thoughts Ti Ti’s Surprising Email To Her Grandfather 09/18/23
Tyson’s Two Thoughts Tyson’s Two Thoughts Regarding AI and a Ticking Clock 09/15/23
The Importance of Happenstance The Importance of Happenstance For Heavenly Clauses 09/08/23
Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Jumping Hoops for a Prescription Raises Ethical Issues at Various Levels 09/04/23
Ginger's Gifts Ginger’s Gifts From Michelle 08/25/23
Holding Hands with Neal Katyal Holding Hands with Neal Katyal What My Teacher Taught Me 08/21/23
Haunting Photos Haunting Photos Then and Now 08/09/23
picture-of What I Learned In My Twilight Years Giotto Revisited 08/04/23
picture-of Pictures of One of My Cossettes A Ngal Lay 07/31/23
What is My Reason for Being What is My Reason for Being My Four Cosettes 07/28/23
Oppie and Me Oppie and Me The Similarities are Striking 07/24/23
The Young and Fearless at Heart “The Young and Fearless at Heart” The Hope for the World 05/29/23
College Days Part II College Days Part II Onsite...Finally 05/26/23
Gosh Josh Gosh Josh You Are So into Your Masculinity 05/24/23
Heart of Royalty Heart of Royalty An Either or Choice 05/10/23
Legends Often Morph into Facts Helping Marjorie Taylor Greene Slay Her Dragons 05/01/23
A Golden Opportunity A Golden Opportunity Explaining Ti Ti to her Class 04/10/23
Picking Mentors Picking Mentors Choose Wisely 04/05/23
NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies NASA Discovered Six Massive Galaxies So What? 03/08/23
Music Explains Me Music Explains Me Music Drives Me 03/03/23
Happy Birthday Moh Moh Happy Birthday Moh Moh And Many More 02/27/23
Jabbering Parrots Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett 02/22/23
Learning from Two Astrophysicists Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World 02/10/23
Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Fatty and Bo Bo Gyi Addressing Our Nation’s Problems 02/06/23
The Evolution of Aldie The Evolution of Aldie According to a 21st Century Darwinian Theory 01/23/23
What’s It All About Alfie? What’s It All About Alfie? From an Eighty-Year Old Alfie 01/20/23
My Quest for Eldorado My Quest for Eldorado In Three Parts 01/16/23
Than Than Myanmar’s van Gogh 01/11/23
Grasping Reality Grasping Reality I Can’t Explain It 01/09/23
What Drove My Father and Drives Me? What Drove My Father and Drives Me? Pain 12/30/22
I Wish that I Had Asked My Father I Wish that I Had Asked My Father About WWII 12/19/22
Repeating the Past Repeating the Past It’s Just Fake News 12/14/22
I Could Hear the Silence I Could Hear the Silence While I Raged 12/12/22
Problems are Assets Problems are Assets Seize the Problems 12/09/22
My Twilight Hauntings... My Twilight Hauntings... About Immortality 11/25/22
Knives My Quest to Understand Why? Why Everything 11/21/22
Growing Up Without Transparency Growing Up Without Transparency And Finally Discovering It 10/14/22
Facing Storms of Life Facing Storms of Life Another Either/Or Situation 10/07/22
Seeing Things More Clearly On My Yellow Brick Road 08/22/22
A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment 08/22/22
Hoosier’s Neighbor? The Ultimate Question 08/17/22
An Important Teaching Moment Joe and I Are Twins 08/10/22
“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men… Often Go Awry.” 08/1/22
Happy Birthday Snow You Are 13 07/22/22
Another Mantra of Mine Be a Storyteller 07/8/22
Bridge On/Over the River Kwai Then and Now 07/1/22
Trouble in River City Come Hell or High Water 06/24/22
Lionel, Amazon’s Guardian Angel Fended Off UPS 06/22/22
“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men….” Reset and Carry On 05/13/22
The Battle of the Alamo… Past, Present, and Future 05/11/22
I Love Teaching… Here in Myanmar or Anywhere 05/09/22
Ti Ti, the Driven An Exceptional Young Lady 05/04/22
My Commencement Address... To the World 05/02/22
Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking 04/29/22
Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie? 04/24/22
Acclimating to the New World In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point 04/20/22
I’m An American Oligarch…. Of Sorts 04/15/22
Building Castles in the Sky Pushing the Limits of Possibility 04/13/22
I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep 04/04/22
Seeing the Future At Least Three Times 03/30/22
My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About 03/28/22
Children and War Ukraine and Myanmar 03/18/22
Ti Ti, the Teacher Of Her Classmates and Me 03/16/22
What We Can Learn from Yapping Dogs And Yapping Leaders 03/11/22
My Great-Granddaughter A Younger Version of My Granddaughters 03/07/22
History Is Repetitious Then and Now 02/21/22
My Personality Quirks… I Have Several 02/16/22
The Tale of My Foot Years Ago and Today 02/11/22
More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy 02/07/22
Parallels Between Myanmar and America Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World 02/04/22
My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby 02/02/22
When I Become a Billionaire… A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage 01/26/22
Two Countries Living in One World 01/24/22
My Dreamland During My Operation 01/19/22
Coming to America A Dream of Many 01/17/22
A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being 12/31/21
Christmas: Past, Present, and Future 12/24/21
Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother 12/06/21
I Love My Family With Some Caveats 12/03/21
“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment 11/26/21
I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits 11/19/21
My Extended Family You Can See Her Painting. 11/15/21
I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty 11/12/21
From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity 11/03/21
A New World Order The World from Campbell’s Perspective 11/01/21
A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life 10/27/21
Paying Homage… To Me 10/25/21
The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change 10/22/21
Miss Independent Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter 10/15/21
Ti Ti and Education Why Is Education Critical? 10/04/21
What’s All This About Women? The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly 10/01/21
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…. “Ride, Boldly Ride” 09/27/21
Parallels with Ti Ti A Part of Which Are Genetic 09/24/21
A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together 09/20/21
My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay 09/15/21
When I Become President of the World… Things Are Going to Change 09/10/21
“I’m Doing the Dance” The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem 09/03/21
Snow’s Poem About Her New Normal 09/01/21
Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie? 08/30/21
What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is…. 08/18/21
Gandhi’s Tribute to Moh Moh For Her Indomitable Will 08/11/21
It Is Time To Write Poetry Another Teaching Event 08/06/21
What To Do When Your World Is Out of Control What I Learned from My Family 07/30/21
A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment 07/26/21
We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life? 07/23/21
How To Achieve Being Venerated, Wise, and Great In Two Steps 07/16/21
A Ngal Lay My Great-Granddaughter 07/14/21
Poets Both Past and Present Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay 07/09/21
Write On Advice from PaPa Al, aka Grandpa 06/28/21
Scarface PaPa Al Isn’t My Nickname 06/25/21
One More Comment For Ti Ti As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road 06/11/21
The Little One, A Part of My Family 06/09/21
Set Set Yo And a Little Child 06/04/21
Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday 06/02/21
Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… Reincarnation of Ra-Ra… 05/14/21
Learn and Become a Storyteller All You Need To Do Is To Travel 05/10/21
The History of Myanmar… Is Being Written Now 05/07/21
The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You? 04/30/21
A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom My Fourth La Danse Macabre 04/19/21
Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures 04/16/21
My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail 04/07/21
I Live in Two WorldsI Have Benefited from One World 03/22/21
What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question 03/19/21
A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life 03/03/21
What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain 03/01/21
Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road 01/29/21
Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti 01/22/21
Purposeful LivesOn Steroids 01/13/21
Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself 01/08/21
A Teaching MomentWith Ti Ti 01/01/21
Today is Thanksgiving Day… Near Inle Lake 12/30/20
Kayla, Bananas Flambé and Party Time for Ginger A Happy Day for Ginger 12/28/20
When Opportunity KnocksCarpe Diem 12/18/20
Blue House Remodeled…With Drive and Determination 11/30/20
Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti 11/23/20
Problems Are Catalysts for ChangeBut It Is Up to You 11/18/20
The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit 10/21/20
Ti Ti Teaches a Myanmar MythTo Her Sister 10/19/20
Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! 10/16/20
Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity 10/07/20
My Two Worlds…Affect My Life 10/05/20
This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al 09/30/20
This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder 09/25/20
From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made 09/23/20
Masks Matter…To Some 09/16/20
Two PoemsBy Two Ladies 09/14/20
A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing 09/11/20
I Live in Two Worlds:One in the States and One in Myanmar 09/07/20
Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family 09/04/20
There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming 08/07/20
Focusing My Stream of ConsciousnessBy Watching a Movie 08/05/20
A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger 07/31/20
Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate 07/24/20
"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.” 07/20/20
A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady 07/06/20
I Dream Things That Never Were…And Say Way Not” 07/03/20
“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children 07/01/20
The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar 06/24/20
Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers 06/01/20
Living in the New NormalOur New World Order 05/29/20
The Use of DrugsDonnie, Aldie, and Dr. Goodspeed 05/27/20
It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family 05/20/20
Our Reason for BeingDiscover It 05/18/20
The Elephant RideOver the Alps of Myanmar 05/11/20
Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family 05/06/20
Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady 04/29/20
Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location 04/27/20
Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons 04/22/20
We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention 03/11/20
How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought? 02/28/20
Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version 02/26/20
The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series 01/29/20
Reflections on My LifeIn My Twilight Years 01/27/20
My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song 01/17/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
I Found Another Incarnation of Bo Bo GyiWhile on Inle Lake 01/15/20
Music as a Unifying Force Also for Oneself 06/28/19
My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar 06/21/19
Family Who Is Your Family? 06/17/19
Wanderlust Travel with No Regret 05/01/19
The Moving Finger Writes And the Writings Haunt Me 04/26/19
Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice No Excuses and No Regrets 04/19/19
My Granddaughter… Knows How to Play Her Cards 03/27/19
Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady 03/18/19
Dreaming…. About My Moment in Time 03/11/19
One Moment in Time Carpe Diem 03/04/19
Warren Buffett Don’t Sleep Walk Through Life 02/22/19
Light at the End of the Tunnel However, the Tunnel is an Illusion 02/06/19
What’s Donald the Dumb Doing During the Shutdown? Watching Westerns on TV 01/16/19
Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It. 01/11/19
Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe 01/04/19
Christmas Gifts for Owen From People Around the World 12/28/18
Christmas Gifts for Jack From People Around the World 12/26/18
"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy" 11/14/18
Dreaming The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes 11/07/18
Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me 10/31/18
A Journey of a Thousand Miles… Started in a Living Rooms 10/12/18
Sexism in Society Especially in Washington 10/05/18
Hand of a Little Child… Ti Ti 09/12/18
titi-selfie thumbnail Ti Ti and Her Selfie That’s My Granddaughter… 04/09/18
marner-me thumbnail Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls 03/16/18
ti-ti-tour thumbnail Ti Ti The Tour Guide 03/15/18