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Share Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood After all the tragic Chinese stories I’ve read–many of them memoirs–you’d think I’d become immune to the sadness and chauvinism in these books. But it never works that way. This week I read Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood (Algonquin, 2010), which just came out in paperback. Hopgood was born [...] Share click to enlarge No one was more disappointed than I when Mel Gibson went off the deep end last decade. When my family got cable television in 1983, one of the first movies I watched during our free month of Cinemax was The Year of Living Dangerously. Most Americans probably remember Mel Gibson’s rise [...] Share click to enlarge What a beautiful poster. Blue skies, purple mountains, green pastures. I took this same Yangzi River cruise shortly after my first wedding 15 years ago. I kind of wish Butterfield & Swire had arranged it, though. My parents, uncle, then-husband, and I boarded the boat in Chongqing (Chungking) in Sichuan province [...] Share click to enlarge Of all my posts, I think I’ve centered only one on Chicago. I’ve lived there now for 10 years. Oh, and I was born and raised there, too. I never appreciated my home town when I was younger. For years I only thought about leaving Chicago. But when I think back [...] Share click to enlarge Back in the days when Northwest was known as Northwest Orient (starting from the early 1950s), the airline became the first in the US to use an all-turbofan jet fleet. Thus the slogan: Northwest Orient: The Fan-Jet Airline. Maybe that’s why Northwest struggled. But seriously, 20 years ago this August, I [...] |
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