Yesterday I dropped my mom off at the airport for an early morning flight to Tokyo. As we left the house, I asked if she had everything:Two carry ons Netbook Blackberry Kindle Receipt for cell phone she'll rent at Narita Wow. Is it possible to travel these days and not stay … [Read more...]
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Pirouettes and pliés
Yesterday I bought my daughter her first set of ballet attire. I love that she's excited to start lessons next week at the tender age of 3. I also studied it a few times in my earlier years--when I was 5, 12, and 21.Some friends have welcomed me into the world of daughters in … [Read more...]
Bound to China
I just started an epic novel about early 20th century China and Hong Kong (The Concubine's Daughter by Pai Kit Fai). Bound feet is a predominant theme in the early pages and while I've read plenty of books about this subject, I never cease to feel sick to my stomach when I read … [Read more...]
Reflections on Tiananmen 21 years later
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Although I wasn't there (I first saw Tiananmen 11 months earlier), the events from June 4, 1989 influenced me more than I could have imagined when I watched the CNN footage from my college dorm in Baltimore that … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
In the author's note of The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel (Bloomsbury, 2008), Maureen Lindley writes:...a novel based on the extraordinary life of a Manchu princess whose striking image, that of a beautiful girl in men's clothes, caught my attention when she appeared … [Read more...]
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