Letters from my last column
Because I really don't have anywhere else to post them.When you sit around as a writer and send these things out into cyberpsace, there is nothing more satisfying than realizing people have actually read them and they have had some impact.I…
Signing Off … the column
THE EXPAT LIFEJUNE 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…