Over the weekend I met my mother at Chicago's Peninsula Hotel for afternoon tea. It's not often that I find myself alone with a few free hours, so I wanted to make the most of it. And what better way to escape the clutter at home than an afternoon at the Pen!This month … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
In light of yesterday's Double Ten celebration, I'm posting this photo from Taiwan oh so many years ago.When this photo was taken in 1991, China was officially 80 years free from dynastic rule. But people on the mainland don't pay much attention to October 10th. That's become … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Marching to Zion
It's been almost a year since I met author Mary Glickman at her Chicago reading for One More River (Open Road, 2011) and Home in the Morning (Open Road, 2010), two novels in her series about Southern Jews in 1920s-1960s.It was during this talk that I learned about book three … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
One of the themes of my memoir GOOD CHINESE WIFE is culture shock. Before my first marriage, I thought culture shock was a sign of weakness.So it was quite disconcerting when I found myself in the throes of culture shock in the mid-1990s when I often traveled to mainland … [Read more...]
An evening with Jamie Ford
Tonight I trekked out to my husband Tom's old stomping grounds to see New York Times best-selling author Jamie Ford. I've read both of his novels--Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ballantine, 2009) and Songs of Willow Frost (Ballantine, 2013), so thought it would be fun … [Read more...]
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