No one was more disappointed than I when Mel Gibson went off the deep end last decade. When my family got cable television in 1983, one of the first movies I watched during our free month of Cinemax was The Year of Living Dangerously. Most Americans probably remember Mel … [Read more...]
Slow boat through China
What a beautiful poster. Blue skies, purple mountains, green pastures.I took this same Yangzi River cruise shortly after my first wedding 15 years ago. I kind of wish Butterfield & Swire had arranged it, though.My parents, uncle, then-husband, and I boarded the boat … [Read more...]
My kind of town
Of all my posts, I think I've centered only one on Chicago. I've lived there now for 10 years. Oh, and I was born and raised there, too.I never appreciated my home town when I was younger. For years I only thought about leaving Chicago.But when I think back to those days, … [Read more...]
Flying the fan-jet airline
Back in the days when Northwest was known as Northwest Orient (starting from the early 1950s), the airline became the first in the US to use an all-turbofan jet fleet. Thus the slogan: Northwest Orient: The Fan-Jet Airline.Maybe that's why Northwest struggled.But … [Read more...]
Suzie Wong is alive and well in China
Okay, so I admit I have an obsession with Suzie Wong. I know it's not the most PC thing in the world.But as Hong Kong prepared to return to China at the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1997, its colonial history became quite fashionable in the expat world. Many of my friends … [Read more...]
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