One of the many things I love about Hong Kong is its banyan trees. They're easy to spot with their flowing, above-ground roots. I saw the above tree at Kowloon Park in August this year. The following banyans are ones I've seen over the last five years.The hands of gratitude … [Read more...]
Tea at the Mandarin
The first place I had afternoon tea in Hong Kong was the Peninsula, but in recent years I've been going to the Mandarin with writer friends. There's something really special about the Mandarin, and not just because it's a super posh hotel in a fancy area of Hong Kong. It also has … [Read more...]
2017 literary lists
It's December, so that time of year when literary lists come out in full force. Many publications post their favorite books of the year by genre or in general. I just realized I made a 2017 list, but way back on January 1st this year. Writer's Digest listed their 81 reasons to … [Read more...]
Black Friday Bookbinding
On the day after Thanksgiving, my niece and I did something a little off the beaten shopping path. We took a bookbinding class this summer at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago and returned today to do another type of bookbinding: the coptic stitch. We started with these tools. Since … [Read more...]
Whatever happened to old Kai Tak?
When my mom first traveled to Hong Kong in 1962, this passenger terminal at Kai Tak was new and so modern. I saw airports in Southeast Asia thirty years later that didn't come close to this. My mom's family would fly in and out of Kai Tak for much of the sixties, seventies, and … [Read more...]
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