This morning I took my kids up to Chinatown in Chicago for dim sum. On the way out, I thought I'd drive around to check out the scene. After all, it's National Day in China and I thought I'd see if there were any changes in Chinatown besides the Chinese flags flying outside the … [Read more...]
China’s National Day
Tomorrow is China's National Day. Not to be confused with Taiwan's Double Ten (which is a whopper of an anniversary this year), October 1, 1949 was the day Mao and Friends founded the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen.But now 62 years later, Mao has been relegated … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Penguin, 2011) was the first book I mentioned on my fall reading list. And like the other two books on the list, I finished reading it before the first day of autumn. Oops. Maybe I should have named it a late-summer reading … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Last week when I was on vacation in Vancouver, I read four memoirs. So from that standpoint alone, it was a fantastic getaway.The first book I read was Deb Olin Unferth's Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt, 2011). Unferth left university … [Read more...]
A glimpse of Vancouver
In my little absence from blogging, I've been to Vancouver and back. What a great getaway. It wasn't my first visit there, but considering the previous time was 24 years ago, I wasn't exactly returning to familiar territory. I love comparing this postcard I sent to my maternal … [Read more...]
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