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Stephen Evans Jordan

Stephen Evans Jordan

Pertamina’s Hired Guns — and Sally

I was transferred to Bank of America’s Jakarta branch in 1971. The Dutch branch manager and assistant managers ran the branch and thought…

Sep 13, 2023

Pertamina’s Hired Guns — and Sally

Sep 13, 2023

Stephen Evans Jordan

Indonesian Poker with General Jimmy

Emily and I were married in 1970; many friends were newly married and/or finishing degrees and starting careers. We were beginning bridge…

Jul 11, 2023

Indonesian Poker with General Jimmy

Jul 11, 2023

Stephen Evans Jordan

The Wizard of Oz Storms Singapore

Singapore’s tropical rains lasted about thirty minutes. I realized that Singaporeans didn’t bother with raincoats and umbrellas; instead…

Nov 2, 2022

The Wizard of Oz Storms Singapore

Nov 2, 2022

Stephen Evans Jordan

Meeting Momo

Late Friday afternoon on a snowy day in 1981, I was sitting at the bar in Denver’s old Stapleton Airport watching the weather channel. The…

Aug 2, 2022

Meeting Momo

Aug 2, 2022

Stephen Evans Jordan

A Cold War Truce

According to the Chinese-Indonesians, our home in Jakarta in 1972 was facing south and thus well placed — feng shui in Chinese. However…

Apr 13, 2021

A Cold War Truce

Apr 13, 2021

Stephen Evans Jordan

When Chickens Fly

In the summer of 1973, I was transferred from Bank of America’s Jakarta Branch to the Singapore Branch after our two-month home leave. Our…

Mar 23, 2021

When Chickens Fly

Mar 23, 2021

Stephen Evans Jordan

The Zoo Station Exit

The East German government started building the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop the inflow of western fascists who were undermining their…

Jun 4, 2020

The Zoo Station Exit

Jun 4, 2020

Stephen Evans Jordan

Daphne and Dostoevsky

The middle of my junior year at Stanford, I wasn’t sleeping well; my appetite was off, and I was irritable. The woman I was dating told me…

Apr 21, 2020

Daphne and Dostoevsky

Apr 21, 2020

Stephen Evans Jordan

Ukrainski?

A friend from college, Bill, called me about a week before Easter of 2005 to let me know he would be stopping at Chicago’s Midway Airport…

Apr 2, 2020

Ukrainski?

Apr 2, 2020

Stephen Evans Jordan

Tree Pruning- the Chicago Way

It was October of 1984, and we lived about six blocks from Wrigley Field on Grace Street between Pine Grove and Lake Shore Drive. I was at…

Mar 26, 2020

Tree Pruning- the Chicago Way

Mar 26, 2020

Stephen Evans Jordan

Stephen Evans Jordan

Author Stephen Evans Jordan’s fiction is inspired from living overseas combined with a passion for history.

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