Entries by AlanPaul

Happy Birthday Pop Pop

My dad, aka dixie doc aka Pop Pop is 70 today, 11-01-05. The kids made these signs to wish him a happy one. The fourth shortie is Eli’s friend Millie. This was right after the two of them played a spirited game of “husband and wife” which included E protecting the homestead and kinder from […]

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Happy Birthday Dixie

Dixie with Anna bout an hour after she was born. The other is him leading Eli and Jacob in the Maplewood fourth of July parade two days later. I would have used an action shot of Dixie leading his band, but I don’t have one on my computer. he’s probably had a baby in his […]

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My WSJ story

Several people wrote in saying they tried but failed to read the column thanks to the WSJ subscriber-only policy. It’s been a few days so I think it’s kosher to post it. Here goes. Beijing-based journalist, Alan Paul, on his favorite way to sightsee in the Chinese capitol: from the seat of a bicycle. How […]

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Jacob lost another tooth

Jacob lost his fifth tooth the other day. I really didn’t know he actually believed in the Tooth fairy but he was very concerned with whether or not she could find him in China and whether she would deliver without a tooth to take away. He apparently put it in his pocket and then lost […]

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Nervous news, hutong tours and more…

I have a lot on my mind right now, with some pretty heavy medical news from back home, which I am not quite ready to discuss publicly yet. I only mention it because it is very much on my mind and I’m having a hard time focusing on this other stuff. But the show must […]

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We Passed

Whoopdee damn doo, we both passed the Driver’s License test this morning. We studied a bit more than last time and it paid off. I would say that Becky studied quite a bit more than me. I just couldn’t pull myself away to sit down and do it as much as I should have. But […]

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The Silver Pagodas

Last Saturday we went to the Silver Pagodas, 800-year-old Buddhist pagoda temples of some sort. This is less than an hour from our house and really beautiful. There are some great hikes allegedly leaving from behind these things, but we just trekked up and around in a circle. Jacob had seen them in a hiking […]

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My story in the Journal

Click here and give it a try. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113019054899478032.html?mod=pj_travel_hs_coll_left But I’m not sure if they’ll let you on there without a sub. Give it a try. Or better yet go out and buy the apper and turn to D5.

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