The last you heard from me (well, before my Forrest Gump meditation), it was March 2011 and I was reveling in handcrafted cheese. What happened to the rest of 2011? Was I stuck in some sort of lactose-induced coma? I guess you could say my life was feeling pretty normal, too mundane. Kind of like [...]
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So you might have noticed that I’ve taken some time off. Let’s just say that I’ve been out on a “snow day.” Never mind that it has been a miserably hot summer in Beijing. Perhaps we can just refer to the past couple of months as my heat stroke period, the way Picasso had a [...]
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I really feel like someone pushed a giant, red pause button on our lives last month. Please, US Consulate, if it’s not too much to ask, could you press PLAY already!? Still waiting. Still on hiatus until I know more. In the meantime, visit The Brink of Something Else for a great series on adjusting to [...]
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I really want to say thanks for all the notes of support over our little visa woe and since I haven’t posted anything here in a while, I thought an update was in order. Alas, I don’t really have anything to update other than to say that we continue to wait and hope and pray. [...]
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So my house looks like this: Which means my life is turned upside down and I’m likely to stress out at any moment. Oh yeah, and did I mention WE’RE MOVING TO BEIJING!? I got tired of waiting for the DH to tell me it was okay to talk about this on a public forum. [...]
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That would be Chinese New Year Resolutions. ‘Cause in my world, the new year just started. I like that I got a month and a half reprieve from non-lunar calendar New Year Resolutions, since my number one top resolution is, as always, to stop procrastinating so much. A month and a half of procrastinating before [...]
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In a good way, that is. I’ve just began an online creativity course, because sometimes it is hard to be creative in a gray little city still holding on to winter. The course is called Unravelling and I suspect it is about a lot more than just creativity. “The Unravelling process is a new way [...]
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Sorry folks, not much to blog about. It rained all weekend and I got a haircut, which depending on your definition, may or might not be a mullet. It’s not exactly what I wanted (who wants a mullet?) but I am going to live with it for a while. Although I’m not sure I want [...]
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It’s Spring! In Linyi the temperatures are up and the trees are budding. And I’ve been doing some spring cleaning. Every once in a while I get inspired to change things up, and that’s what happened this week. Except I have ignored my house and instead decided to fix up this ‘ol blog. Lord knows [...]
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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. ;)
