My friend Annie took this photo 20 years ago when I was pregnant and still living in Hong Kong. I remember this day as clearly as one can from two decades ago. We walked to the Jewish cemetery in Happy Valley and had lunch at Dim Sum there, then walked back through Wan Chai. I … [Read more...]
Sketch by Joanne Wong
Thanks to my friend Christina, I learned about Hong Kong-based artist Joanne Wong and her campaign to draw 100 portraits in 100 days. I sent Joanne a photo I took in Hong Kong last summer and voila! I've never had a professional author photo taken, but how could it ever compare … [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...]
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