As a teenager, I listened to my parents. Before I flew off to China via Canada in 1988, they insisted I take slide film. Slides, they said, would be perfect for a place like China. Ancient architecture, fascinating street scenes, an altogether different way of life than what I … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
I think I'm a pretty cautious person when it comes to watching out for myself. But when I think back to the summer I traveled to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, I thank my lucky stars that I made it out of Moscow in one piece.It was a month before the fall of the USSR … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Almost Home
There are some books that seem to speak to me. In fact, some authors do that, no matter what they write. And Janet Brown is one of them. Even before I read her first memoir, Tone Deaf in Bangkok (ThingsAsian Press, 2009), I'd become enamored with her B is for Bangkok (ThingsAsian … [Read more...]
Guest post–Where are the Photos of God?
Stuart Beaton is back guest blogging about the wild world of teaching at Tianjin University in China. There's always something new with Stu, and he doesn't disappoint here. But before you read further, be sure to check out his author podcast site … [Read more...]
Handover Day in Hong Kong
I can't remember when I first heard that Great Britain would return Hong Kong to China at midnight on July 1, 1997, but it had to have been sometime in my early teens.It was then that I decided I wanted to experience Hong Kong before it changed hands.So it was no … [Read more...]
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