My alma mater in Hong Kong has been in the news this week after it became a battle zone Monday night. I've posted photos of the campus before, but I wanted to put many of them here together just to show what a beautiful and peaceful place it was.The Chinese University was not … [Read more...]
Letter from Hong Kong, August 1994
Just as e-mail was becoming mainstream in 1994, people still wrote real letters and I was no exception. I wrote to my grandma in Albany, New York, several times a month when I lived in Hong Kong. She kept all of my letters before she died at the age of 104.5 in 2007. This letter … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween
Several years ago I spent Halloween in Hong Kong for the first time since just after the Handover. I was in the city on a quick layover, but with enough time to walk around my old haunts from the 90s. Kowloon has always been my favorite part of Hong Kong, maybe because it’s less … [Read more...]
One week in Cartagena
It’s only taken me four months, but here are some photos of Cartagena, where my mom and I traveled this past summer. We decided to go there after meeting a number of travelers in Panama City the summer before, travelers who had just come from Colombia. We were … [Read more...]
The importance of hubs
As the turmoil in Hong Kong shows no signs of resolving, it's so hard to think of what will happen to my favorite city. I'm aware that Hong Kong's heyday may have passed long ago, but it's still an important city in Asia and in the world. It's difficult to think about Hong Kong … [Read more...]