My mom's recent trip to Thailand brought back memories of my trip there in 1991. Like my mom, I went to Thailand alone but had plans to meet up with someone from home there. In my mom's case it was a close friend (also from Chicago). Mom and Mary met up in Thailand without … [Read more...]
Life and death in Bangkok
My mom just finished a four-day stay in Bangkok and is on her way to Myanmar for 2.5 weeks. (Months ago I posted about my thwarted plans to visit Burma 21 years ago.) While this is her first trip to Myanmar, Bangkok is not a new adventure for my mother. She hung out there for … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Dead: A Ghost Story
Yesterday I read the perfect e-short story just in time for Halloween. Mina Khan's Dead: A Ghost Story (2012) is both chilling and empowering.Nasreen is a ghost. But she's not just your average household spook. She's a woman scorned. As a teenager in Bangladesh, her widower … [Read more...]
A quick tour of Montreal’s Chinatown
Several days ago I posted some photos from Montreal's Chinese lantern exhibit at the botanical gardens. But before I saw the lanterns, I stumbled upon Chinatown. My sisters-in-law and I were in Old Montreal, headed up to Schwartz's deli, when I spotted a pagoda-like structure off … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Watering Heaven
After a stretch of reading narratives from WWII China, this week I turned to a collection of contemporary short stories, mainly set in Beijing and Los Angeles.Watering Heaven (Signal 8 Press, 2012) by Peter Tieryas Liu consists of twenty stories that mostly feature male … [Read more...]
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