I sent this postcard to my grandma in June, 1991.I am in a small town in the northeast of Thailand. It is a very quiet, relaxing place! The guest house where I am staying is right on the Mekong River, overlooking the country of Laos (on the other side of the river). I will … [Read more...]
Postcard from Tahiti, 1989
I wrote this postcard to my late grandmother in January, 1989.I'm in Tahiti and will be here for another 2 1/2 weeks! Today we are going to see waterfalls like the one on the front of this postcard. It is pretty hot here and humid! I haven't done much sightseeing because we … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Happy Now?
This week I ventured much closer to home. In fact, I read a book that takes place in Chicago and my hometown of Evanston. You can't get much closer than that.I'd read rave reviews of Katherine Shonk's debut novel, Happy Now? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) and recognized … [Read more...]
Ambassador Hotel, Hong Kong
When I was younger, I used to collect matchboxes from my travels. Before I turned 20, I had bowls of them from South Korea, Tahiti, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, and places across the US. (The only matchbooks I saw in China back there were plain white, so I didn't … [Read more...]
Postcard pretty
Yesterday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with fellow alumni from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The director of the alumni association was in town and brought us all a package of these beautiful postcards.Twenty years ago this summer I flew off to Hong Kong to start my … [Read more...]
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