Entries by AlanPaul

Last column: long-term expats

* THE EXPAT LIFE * MARCH 6, 2009 Come Home, Did You Say? Some Expats Choose to Cut Ties with Their Employer and Stay Abroad * By ALAN PAUL We went to China in 2005 with a three-year commitment. Like most traditional expats, we arrived for a job (in our case my wife Rebecca’s) and […]

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Allmans, Big East hoops…MARCH!

March Madness is here and I am enjoying it, in a maddening sort of way. It is the one month where I also felt most homesick in China, as college basketball reached its always fun, always nutty peak, and the Allman Brothers set up shop at the Beacon Theatre for extended runs. These are some […]

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Anna art

It is Anna’s dream to have a picture published in Highlights magazine and she worked diligently on these the other day. I chose The Great Wall (“me and mommy on the Great Wall”) but she chose the forest. “You can;t choose this because you miss Beijing,” she said. Smart girl, but wrong here. I tried […]

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Pitt basketball

It’s always a pleasure to revisit the highlights of your youth. And I got a chance to do that in this Slam post about watching Pitt basketball and an interview with old friend Mike Lowenstein. Bonus point: Can anyone name all of the players pictured here? DP? Rip?

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Big Dummy

The headline refers to me, not the adorable children pictured below in their Purim costumes. Yesterday, Anna celebrated “Jewish Halloween.” It is pretty interesting having her at the JCC, learning about all things Judaic. I couldn’t really remember anyone’s name form the Purim story except Esther and Haman, so I was having Anna fill me […]

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Huge in China

You never know what you may stumble upon online. I was searching for something else and landed on this article about me. I hosted the writer a while back and he eventually sent me a link to the article in Chinese, with no pictures I just found this one by fluke,

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Interesting

People rallying against the new Brooklyn arena for the Nets picked up on my Slam blog post. I discovered this via Google alert. Interesting — and a reminder that everything I post is public and has a potentially wider audience than intended.

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Jacob

I can’t believe how much all of my kids love dogs. We can’t putof buying one much longer. The new Bob the gerbil may buy usa little time. Here is Jacob with a friend’s goldendoodle. I have a problem buying one of these doodle dogs. We do need something that doesn’t shed though.Showing off his […]

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