Last night a couple of my sisters-in-law and I hit the Peninsula's chocolate bar to celebrate a birthday. We'd never been before and I have to say I was a little hesitant ingesting so much sugar at a time of the evening when I don't even eat. But that's what special occasions are … [Read more...]
The case for learning Mandarin
Every year in early May my husband flies off to Omaha to listen to Warren Buffett speak to his shareholders. It's been a tradition in our family for more years than I can count. When he returned last weekend, he told me there were more Chinese attendees than ever and that Warren … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
I recently got new laptop and after a data migration have been going through old files and photos and stumbled upon this one. It’s one of my favorites from the mid-90s. My parents and I are at the Raffles in Singapore for the afternoon. They order—what else—Singapore Slings, but … [Read more...]
Happy Pub Day to KSR Burns!
Ever since I first visited Paris a couple years ago, I can't get enough of books set there. I'd read them before my first trip, but there was something about the city that kept me thinking about it after I left (and after I returned from my second trip there a year later) that … [Read more...]
An afternoon with Jean Iversen
My family and I trekked over to Chicago for Independent Bookstore Day to hear my friend Jean Iversen speak about her new book, Local Flavor: Restaurants That Shaped Chicago Neighborhoods (Northwestern University Press, 2018).I was fortunate to talk to Jean while she was … [Read more...]
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