After all the tragic Chinese stories I've read--many of them memoirs--you'd think I'd become immune to the sadness and chauvinism in these books.But it never works that way. This week I read Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood (Algonquin, 2010), which just came out in … [Read more...]
The Year of Living Dangerously
No one was more disappointed than I when Mel Gibson went off the deep end last decade. When my family got cable television in 1983, one of the first movies I watched during our free month of Cinemax was The Year of Living Dangerously. Most Americans probably remember Mel … [Read more...]
Slow boat through China
What a beautiful poster. Blue skies, purple mountains, green pastures.I took this same Yangzi River cruise shortly after my first wedding 15 years ago. I kind of wish Butterfield & Swire had arranged it, though.My parents, uncle, then-husband, and I boarded the boat … [Read more...]
My kind of town
Of all my posts, I think I've centered only one on Chicago. I've lived there now for 10 years. Oh, and I was born and raised there, too.I never appreciated my home town when I was younger. For years I only thought about leaving Chicago.But when I think back to those days, … [Read more...]
Flying the fan-jet airline
Back in the days when Northwest was known as Northwest Orient (starting from the early 1950s), the airline became the first in the US to use an all-turbofan jet fleet. Thus the slogan: Northwest Orient: The Fan-Jet Airline.Maybe that's why Northwest struggled.But … [Read more...]
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