Entries by AlanPaul

Signing Off … the column

THE EXPAT LIFE JUNE 26, 2009, 11:45 A.M. ET Signing Off Having achieved closure after a return visit to Beijing, Alan Paul bids readers farewell. By ALAN PAUL This will be my final Expat Life column. After three and a half years, 91 columns and six months back in the U.S. it is simply time […]

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MJ Tribute

Wow, this is weird. I have really not paid a while lot of attention to the coverage of Michel Jackson and his death. He passed away the night before we left for Idaho. I thought it was sort of odd and unfair that Farrah got overwhelmed by him. But I have been aware of the […]

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Idaho pictures

Jacob and I rock climbed a 1,000-foot face. I’mnot sure how, either.He was never scared.Sawtooth Lake, high altitude alpine lake… great use of the self timer, with camera held up by twigs.Double rainbow.Anna on her sixth birthday.Sunset from the ranch porch.Eli and Ellie Singer rock climbing.On rafting trip Eli was the first one up “Jump […]

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My new personal website

Please check out my new website. It’s www.alanpaul.net if you want to check in later. My final Expat Life column is running tomorrow and I wanted to have a page to direct readers to. Certainly a work in progress. Let me know what you think. I enjoy web design, actually. For now at least “blog” […]

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Column that never ran…

I wrote this column about being married to a successful woman on spec for a new publication and it did not run, for a variety of reasons. A very different version will be out in a few months. I thought I’d post here. When my family and I relocated to Beijing, China four years ago, […]

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Line of Duty

I just made a contribution tot he fund for the family of the guard killed at the Holocaust Museum and think you should, too. He died in the line of duty and I feel like we all owe him a lot of gratitude. Click here to find out more. That whole thing also made me […]

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Little League Excitement

Jacob’s LL team has made the SemiFinals and he is fully pumped. It has been a lot of fun and I have been shocked by how much I have enjoyed watching the games and how tense some of them are. They wont he other night 2- and I do not believe there any errors. Considering […]

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Last column — dong, deeper

I took my visit with Dong a little deeper and added some perspective. “Yechen” is his nickname and how he asked me to identify him in public. * THE EXPAT LIFE * JUNE 5, 2009 An Old Friend in China Searches for the Right Path I just returned from a 12-day return visit to China. […]

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