I went for a bike ride last Friday morning, with a group of neighbors. We basically rode up to the starbucks at Pinnacle Plaza, had a coffee, and some delicious egg pancakes form these little carts in the woods, and rode back. We all go to Pinnacle regularly. It is about 5 miles straight up […]

THE EXPAT LIFE By ALAN PAUL Questions Never Asked For Foreigners in China, Daily Life Is FreeOf Government Intrusion — Until It Isn’tApril 27, 2007 People often ask me how much I feel the authoritarian arm of the government living in China. The answer is never — until I do. If that sounds circular or […]

My brother keeps me sending me boxscore from the local Wilmington, DE paper, highlighting his son Jesse’s baseball prowess. He has right to be proud. Jesse is a freshman and probably in the 5 percentile of height (though his Jewfro may bump him up to 9th or 10th). When the senior catcher got hurt, Jesse […]

This week has been such a fuzzy headed blur. I am lucky that I have the luxury of being lazy for a while because I have been having the damndest time getting anything done. I find myself staring endlessly at my computer screen. I left home today and went to a place with no internet […]

One nice thing about living here has been the lack of commercialism assaulting the kids. There are not 20 catalogues a week coming into the house filling them with ideas and new desires. They don’t watch TV so they don’t see commercials. We almost never go to McDonald’s or Burger King, and when we do, […]