Entries by AlanPaul

Becky and Lisa

One of the great parts of our two-day stop in San Fran was getting to see Lisa Russ and a glimpse of her and Adam and Zach’s sweet little life in Oakland. She sent along this photo.

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Last column

This is the first and last at least for a while edited on a Blackberry (Becky’s) at approx. 12,000 feet — inside Up4Pizza, atop Snowmass Mountain. Family Beckons: Heading Home for the Holidays December 22, 2006 The holiday season can be a source of great stress for people living abroad, just like anywhere else. Among […]

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We’re back

Made it home… everyone asleep by 8:30 last night and up by 12:30 am… I am in a strange state of suspended reality or something.. and writing a column to boot. Great to see everyone we saw aqnd sorry to have missed everyone we missed during our whirlwind trip. It has left us exhausted but […]

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Winding down and heading back

We are on the last day of our whirlwind 16-day tour of America, heading back to china tomorrow. We’re in Bay City, staying in Harold and ruth’s house with 10 other people. There are people sleeping (or nor) in every nook and cranny of the house. It’s been a good trip but I think we […]

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Holidays in China

I did a bunch of reporting for a WSJ Weekend section piece on celebreating the holidays in Asia. I enjoyed the work and did some good stuff but most of it ended up on the cutting room floor. Here it is, vignette style… some of it would have ended up in my last column had […]

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Final ski photos

As we stumble along on out exhausting but fun trip… This was a great ski trip.. all three kids bought into it whole hog.. Jacob learned to turn and now looks like he is actually skiing.. his teacher was “uncle hill,” a really fun guy… he had lots of pinkl\-clad girls in his class, which […]

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Reunion with Javier Wong

I am working on a more extensive post about our early travels but things are going well though it its exhausting. We are skiing in Colorado with my folks now and having a great time, making it through two days despite eli and anna being up in the middle of the night both nights we’ve […]

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My forum

Well, it’s going to be a tough week to get any posting done. I have been busy, busy trying to get ready to leave on Friday. It will be a whirlwind trip and I am trying to get all my i’s dotted and t’s crossed before departing. That includes getting my next column largely done […]

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