Entries by AlanPaul

Great Hike on the Great Wall

As many of you know, my 15-y.o. nephew Jesse is staying with us for five or six weeks this summer. It’s been great. he is working as a counselor at Dulwich Soccer Camp and Jacob and Eli are happy campers (literally). Eli has never had so much fun playing soccer. They would follow him to […]

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HuaShan Holy Mountain

These pictures are all from Hua Shan, one of the four holy Taoist mountains in China. It is about two hours from Xian and completely changes your perspective on the area. Really fabulous place. The monk in the pictures is Dong, my ex Chinese teacher. In the one image he is showing Jacob how to […]

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Desperate times…

…call for desperate measures. I thought it was quite revolutionary to have T. Boone Pickens calling for a huge investment in wind power on the WSJ editorial page. Check it out.

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Expat Leaving Column

I am falling eve behind. here is two weeks’ ago column. New one already posted last week. THE EXPAT LIFE By ALAN PAUL The Annual Expat Exodus Never Gets Any Easier June 20, 2008 It’s feeling mighty empty around here. The annual June exodus is under way, with moving trucks clogging the lanes of our […]

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I won an Award

I won a First Place Award from the Society of Newspaper Columnists. It’s the first award I’ve won (or entered, I think) since the North Jersey Business Press Association in 1989. that one was for a profile of the CEO of Bertolli Olive Oil in the mighty Corporate Reporter. I haven’t processed all this yet. […]

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Some ink in China Daily

China Daily, the English language publication of the government here, published profiles of four or five Americans in China today as a 4th of July package — “Happy Birthday America.” I was one of them. I knew it was coming but was shocked to see this picture running almost half a page. Happy 4th everyone.

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