Cousin Jesse rules!

We went down to Delaware a week or two ago to see Emma as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun - or half of Annie Oakley,anyhow. In the first half of the play Annie was a tall statuesque African American girl. There was an intermission and Annie…

Ok, thanks

Thanks for the comments and emails. Good to know there are eyes out there. I will keep blogging. Like I said, it really does help me process my life.Here are some photos of Linda and Eric, our Chinese teachers and friends, as per last column.

Catching Up

So I obviously haven’t been writing much up here. There are a lot of factors. For one thing, i don’t really have much of a sense that there’s anyone reading this and that tends to drain one’s enthusiasm and motivation. But it is important…

Last column

An Ex-Expat Learns Lessons from a New Expat THE EXPAT LIFE FEBRUARY 20, 2009> By ALAN PAUL Last fall as the reality that we were in our final months in China was beginning to sink in, I thought about dropping my Chinese classes. There…