Searching for Hunter S. Thompson in Laos
Posted: January 7, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Searching for Hunter S. Thompson in Laos, and other essays on the Asian road, is an autobiography of a life lived in Asia. Hunter S. Thompson made a little known visit to Vientiane, Laos, and Hong Kong in 1975, only a few weeks before the fall of Vietnam. Writer Roy Hamric tracked down and talked with people who met with Thompson and he gives readers a vivid picture of a frustrated Thompson in Hong Kong and Vientiane. His account adds to the picture of one of America’s premier journalists.
Other essays bring to life the writers Red Pine, Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, Thomas Merton and the author’s immersion into Buddhism and Asian culture since his marriage to a Thai village girl.
My autobiography and essays on Asia can be ordered from Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and e-book.
Also see Backwoods Churches of the Big Thicket, A Zen Journal and Zen Poems at Amazon.
This is me practicing…..
Posted: August 14, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
This Burmese lady is a dance member of the famous Mustache Brothers comedy troup in Myanmar.
Laddawan Hamric and one of her five cats
Posted: August 14, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI’m experimenting with posting images and text, and it is very confusing to me at this stage. Bare wth my practicing for a while, but I will try to make the posts (more useful that the image to the right). The cat’s name is Cindy.
Hello, I will restart this journal in the coming days.
Posted: August 10, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentAfter a break of several years, I plan to restart this journal. My time has been split with other pressing duties. The most time consuming was the writing and publishing of four books.
The most recent book is titled Zen Poetry. All four books are available at Amazon books or by clicking on one of the four images at the top of this journal (see Above).
Chief among my new duties is to relearn how to use the WordPress tools to make the new journal appear the same as the older version, or as seamless, at least, as I am capable of at this stage. To say that I am “rusty” doesn’t remotely catch how intimidating the WordPress process appears to me at this stage. But this inaugural post (if completed successfully) is a heartening first step.
One thing I have committed to is to use shorter versions of many stories. The stories in the old journal will remain as they are, too many stories are ridiculously long, but the new writing will be more in line with common sense in terms of the time most readers have to give to a journal such as this.
I will be deleting many outdated addresses. Please email me if your address or other information needs updating or you wish to delete other information.
Red Pine’s Stonehouse poems
Posted: May 26, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
An early copy of Red Pine’s Stonehouse poems that was printed in Taiwan. It’s still in print in a modern edition.
Jim Harrison
Posted: February 4, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 CommentsWe are each
the only world
we are going to get.
–From Returning to Earth
New Empty Bowl books by Red Pine
Posted: January 25, 2020 Filed under: books, Buddhism Zen, people, states of mind, writers Leave a comment
Three new chapbooks by Red Pine’s Empty Bowl Press. Order at Amazon.
Emerson on the books we read
Posted: January 12, 2020 Filed under: books, people, time and space, writers Leave a comment
“I cannot remember the books I read any more than the meals I have eaten, even so, they have made me.”
A New Edition of David Loy’s Non-Duality, A Classic
Posted: January 4, 2020 Filed under: Buddhism Zen, people, religion, states of mind, writers 1 Comment
Loy’s book is essential for anyone practicing some level of Zen, Buddhism, Taoism, or a student of the writings of Heidegger or the Japanese philosophers related to the writings of Suzuki, Abe, et al. Loy was a student in Yamada Roshi’s Sanbo Kyodan lineage. The new edition has a revised introduction and notes; it is published by Yale University Press.
the roy hamric journal 