Today my niece and I had the best time attending a bookbinding class at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago. Some months ago I blogged about a bookbinding notebook someone had given to Bari as a gift. She posted this notebook on Instagram and I immediately recognized it as my late … [Read more...]
Signs of the times: Hong Kong in the 90s
While the world is falling apart, I think back to an August afternoon many years ago when I flew off to Hong Kong during another global crisis: Gulf War I. I had never been to Hong Kong before, but was about to spend my junior year of college there and my flight was delayed eight … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Thirty years ago this summer, my dad took me to Seoul for a week. I was 16, going on 17, and had never been to Asia before. We flew business class and stayed at the Westin Chosun thanks to my mom's job at United's corporate headquarters. United at that time owned Westin.Just … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World
I came across The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World (Center Street, 2017) by Kristin Rockaway on Amazon and when I read it partially takes place in Hong Kong, I quickly ordered it. Not only is it rare to find a mainstream novel set in Hong Kong (at least among those … [Read more...]
The Paris Apartment
This is a long time coming, but friends and family have asked to see photos of the apartment in Paris where I stayed last month. It seems like a lifetime ago, maybe because I've been mostly on the road this summer. I just sent my agent 85,000 words of my revised manuscript for … [Read more...]
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