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…
Cute kid alert
And now for something completely different... Rodger Citron and Andee Cohen's adorable twins Alexa and Amelia. Just because this is such a cute picture.
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…
Last NBC blog post…
..for now. New one will be up within 24 hours.Frankly, new one is better than this one.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Dixieland in the Temple of Heaven
I have no further comment.
Some quick photos
In hotel in Xi An.. been a whirlwind week or so since Joan and ben, Jesse,, and my folks arrived.. not much time to write but lots to come sooner or later...