More birthday pictures
These pictures are from our birthday celebration in Jacob's class as well as that night at home, just us and the Yardleys. The sunglasses picture shows Jacob with two of his best friends Andrew Moy (Kathy Chen's son) and Javier Wong.
Jacob’s party
Jacob’s party was a big success. All the kids met here and piled onto a bus, which we hired from our compound and we set sail for Fun Dazzle downtown. I have described the place before, but in case you missed it or forget, it is basically…
Happy Anniversary To Us
As many of you remember first hand, 13 years ago today in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I made an honest woman out of Rebecca. I could say, “I can’t believe it’s been 13 years” but I would be lying. I really can’t even remember not being with…
Some funny response
I really enjoyed these two responses to my last column. If you didn;t see it and would like me to email you, drop me a line.Laura Romanoff writes from Chicago, in her own inimitable style: Poor baby!! I so feel for him. The same thing happened…
798 Art Center
There is an artist’s loft/studio/gallery area not far from here, in the Dashanzi area. The area is called 798, which is some sort of oblique reference to the Tian. pr-tsts. I don’t understand it so I can’t explain it, but that it what…
Happy Birthday Jacob
The top picture shows Jacob and Mr. Li beating the batter for his birthday cupcakes. Below that are two shots of him talking on the phone this morning to my folks and Laura and her family, who sang him "Happy Birthday." He is always cold and…
Note from Carrie Wells
Carrie Wells just got out of the hospital after about a week and will have to return before long, as noted below. Here is a ltter from her. Send her best wishes... We all need to get through this spring and take it from there.Dear Beloved Family…
Our latest purchase
We bought this piece of furniture yesterday at a place called Radiance, near here. They have a lot of beautiful stuff, countless rooms filled with it. They are having a limited early spring sale. I got this as part of that. It was pretty cheap.We…
An artist we really like
I'm not sure how well you will be able to see these, but this is the work of an artist we really like. We will probably a painting or two from him soon. His name is Zhing Lin.
Anna’s new Chinese outfit
She picked out this outfit -- "the pink one, pink, pink..."And also bought this baby doll when we went to the big toy market on Sunday. I'll write more about it tomorrow, but the doll was right out of Chuckie.. with a maniacal laugh that wouldn't…