I’m thinking of visiting the US soon, (It’s been 2 years…) and so I thought I’d answer a question I get asked a lot: What do you miss about back home? First of all, the concept of back home is kind of difficult for me. Which home do you mean? Do you mean my birth [...]
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This doesn’t have anything to do with China, but I thought that some of my family from the Four Corners area of the US might be interested in this story I found in the LA Times. Uranium mining was huge in the Four Corners – where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. I remember [...]
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To all veterans, my brother and my father included, Thank You. (And to my Mom, too, as she just reminded me she serves in the Army Nurse Corps.) From the Foreign Policy blog: “Take a minute out of your day to visit Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project, which is collecting the oral histories of [...]
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I don’t really like to talk politics, but I love reading about politics. Until now. Until the US election machine began to roll. I am very, very grateful that I am not actually in the US right now so I don’t have to watch all the dirty campaign ads. The online newspaper stories are bad [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
