Entries by AlanPaul

More birthday pictures

These pictures are from our birthday celebration in Jacob’s class as well as that night at home, just us and the Yardleys. The sunglasses picture shows Jacob with two of his best friends Andrew Moy (Kathy Chen’s son) and Javier Wong.

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Jacob’s party

Jacob’s party was a big success. All the kids met here and piled onto a bus, which we hired from our compound and we set sail for Fun Dazzle downtown. I have described the place before, but in case you missed it or forget, it is basically a huge indoor playground, with climbing thingies, slides […]

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Happy Anniversary To Us

As many of you remember first hand, 13 years ago today in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I made an honest woman out of Rebecca. I could say, “I can’t believe it’s been 13 years” but I would be lying. I really can’t even remember not being with Becky. More amazing to me is that we have […]

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Some funny response

I really enjoyed these two responses to my last column. If you didn;t see it and would like me to email you, drop me a line. Laura Romanoff writes from Chicago, in her own inimitable style: Poor baby!! I so feel for him. The same thing happened to me when I was probably exactly his […]

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798 Art Center

There is an artist’s loft/studio/gallery area not far from here, in the Dashanzi area. The area is called 798, which is some sort of oblique reference to the Tian. pr-tsts. I don’t understand it so I can’t explain it, but that it what I have been told. It is an old industrial area that has […]

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Happy Birthday Jacob

The top picture shows Jacob and Mr. Li beating the batter for his birthday cupcakes. Below that are two shots of him talking on the phone this morning to my folks and Laura and her family, who sang him “Happy Birthday.” He is always cold and has been wearing this sleeper to bed lately. It […]

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Note from Carrie Wells

Carrie Wells just got out of the hospital after about a week and will have to return before long, as noted below. Here is a ltter from her. Send her best wishes… We all need to get through this spring and take it from there. Dear Beloved Family and Friends:First, please accept my apology for […]

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Our latest purchase

We bought this piece of furniture yesterday at a place called Radiance, near here. They have a lot of beautiful stuff, countless rooms filled with it. They are having a limited early spring sale. I got this as part of that. It was pretty cheap. We put it in our kitchen, where we needed both […]

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Anna’s new Chinese outfit

She picked out this outfit — “the pink one, pink, pink…” And also bought this baby doll when we went to the big toy market on Sunday. I’ll write more about it tomorrow, but the doll was right out of Chuckie.. with a maniacal laugh that wouldn’t stop. We took the batteries out. She loves […]

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