Last week I finally picked up Cara Lopez Lee's travel memoir, They Only Eat their Husbands (Ghost Road Press, 2011) and wonder what took me so long. I was most impressed by Lee's utter and complete honesty, whether about her turbulent family relationships, her dysfunctional … [Read more...]
National Day in Chicago’s Chinatown
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...]
Where are the lanterns?
Today is one of my favorite holidays--the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. Yesterday I took my kids to Chinatown in Chicago so we could buy mooncakes, the traditional pastry enjoyed on this holiday across the Chinese diaspora.But my favorite thing about this holiday … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Eating Smoke
After waiting all summer for the release of Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland (Blacksmith Books, 2011), I was elated to receive it this Monday. Averaging 100 pages a day, I finished it today despite chasing after four kids (I'm … [Read more...]
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