I don’t have a working camera at the moment, but I used PhotoBooth to snap this shot of me at the scorer’s table and the action in front of me. I should have been bolder in turning around the computer and snapping. I missed some great shots. There are not too many things I miss […]

The trip is going well. We have zipped through time zones like time travelers and we’re all now more or less adjusted. we had a great week skiing in Colorado and are now banging around beautiful Bay City, Michigan Becky is speaking to the Pinconning Rotary Club today about her China experiences. I will eagerly […]

We are leaving this afternoon, in about three hours, for our annual whirlwind, pray-our-flights-all-leave three week tour of North America. I’ll make a few updates when I have a chance to breathe, but expect lots of silence in coming days. Drop me a line with your number when you can and I’ll hope to speak […]

Those of you who have been reading this blog from the beginning, meaning since we moved to China in August, 205, approximately 775 posts ago, may remember a little incident when we went to the giant police station get our long term Visas for the first time. I didn’t speak a word of Chinese and […]

Here are a couple paragraphs I cut from my last column, all stuff about Pittsburgh… it just seemed like I was going a little overboard with that angle and needed to trim it back, but it’s all true… Whole column again can be read