Entries by AlanPaul

Satisfying my hoops yearnings

If you prefer to read me in a more official capacity, this same thing is posted here: http://slamonline.com/links/12272005/ It is my account of one of the most red letter basketball nights I’ve ever had. Just superb all the way around. Tomorrow we are loading up the rented Pontiac Montana and driving from Bay City to […]

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an interesting read…

http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/perspective/20051219-fmp.html?cjpos=columnists_whatsnew column by matt Pottinger explaining why he quit the Journal china bureau to join the marines. One of the first things I did in Beijing was go to his going away lunch.

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Home, safe and sound

Jacob, eli and I have been in maplewood — short hills, actually — for four days now and all is well. I think we are actually over the sleep hump, but i thought that two days ago only to have all three of us up at three am. Becky and anna arrive this evening. Then […]

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Winding Down…

I’m leaving tomorrow afternoon with Jacob and Eli. Looking forward to getting home and seeing many of you, my faithful readers. Not looking forward to leaving behind Anna and Becky. I don’t like the thought of our family being separated by half the world. I guess I prefer to traveling solo with all three of […]

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Still rolling in….

Mr Jon Kessler pulls himself away from Wine Spectator to write in: “Couldn’t let this go without a entry or two from Wall Street: China Cat China Chat Mainland Musings Sino Wino Kracker Writes Kanji Tofo ain’t no ‘ho foo WSJizizzle Chinizzle” What is a China Cat Sunflower anyhow? Sounds like some sort of heroin […]

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Responding

Carrie wrote: That’s so funny that Ben mentioned the extra suitcase because I was going to write the same thing. Need I say, you have the 3 most adorable children, surely, in China, if not the entire world! (And I’m not partial, of course) I’m not sure what Eli is wearing on his head — […]

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Jay Gindoff in da House

Jay Gindoff came through here on Sunday evening. I picked him up at the airport, which was a fiasco already reported on, I believe. Then we had dinner downtown. Next day he and I tooled around Beijing. We went to a frigid Tianamen Square, walked all around but not into the Forbidden City, then took […]

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More pictures

You can at least get a sense of jacob’s movement and his whole class hopping around from the one pic. You also have eli and his buddies Race Cameron and Gabriel Chi (Japanese mom, Chinese dad). We came home last Saturday night and there were presents for the kids on the table, with a note, […]

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