Last night I had so much fun meeting Lenora Chu, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (Harper, 2017). She was reading at Common Good Books in St. Paul, Minnesota, a super cozy bookstore in a fun area near Macalester College. … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
This summer I spent time in New York and Hong Kong, so it was fun to run into this bar in Hong Kong last month. When I stay in New York, it's with my brother, who lives off the Q and B lines. I take those to another station in Brooklyn before changing to the N or R for places … [Read more...]
Hong Kong pawn shop signs
So many of Hong Kong's neon lights are gone now. Some streets look completely bare compared to a decade or two ago.But I've noticed that the pawn shop signs are still going pretty strong. If pawn shops have closed up, the signs are of course gone. But if they're still … [Read more...]
Miffy dim sum in Hong Kong
When my little ones were really young, we'd rush downstairs on Saturday mornings just like I used to do when I was their age. With the advent of cable TV, the novelty of Saturday morning cartoons wore off three decades ago. But there was still something special on TV some years … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
It's so hard to believe I was here four weeks ago, standing on the balcony outside my bedroom window at the airbnb my friends and I rented.I spent my last night walking around PMQ (on the left of this photo with the zigzag fence), even though most of the shops had long … [Read more...]
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