Eli at school

Eli is having a great year. He has received his bronze and silver certificates for good effort and behavior, which he is very proud of. He has a really nice teacher who likes him and does not try to always pound his square little peg into round…

A little more wild Wall…

..cause you never can get enough of it///A few weeks ago we spent the night at the country weekend home of our fruiends Mark and Karen.. then went for a great all hike in the am.. these pics sort of show intense the steep part was...Eli loved…

The Big Three, R.I.P.

So sad and yet so predictable to watch Detroit's Big Three on their knees pleading for money. It really makes me angry that so many politicians of both parties enabled this sordid behavior for years instead of forcing them to deal with reality…

Last Column

Well, two ago really...An Unusual Homecoming for Expat Kid Made GoodBy ALAN PAULThe NBA's China Games last week featured an unusual homecoming for Milwaukee Bucks rookie Joe Alexander, an American who grew up as an expat in Beijing, where his…

Cool video from Xiamen Beach Festival

Woodie Alan original song "I Don't Care" at the Xiamen Beach Festival.This multi-camera shoot was filmed for Fujian TV, which featured the performance the day after the Fest ended. There were about 5,000 people there, on the Beach, on the Taiwan…

Ritan Park

Ritan Park has been one of our most visited spots in Beijing. I have pictures from our first week here. I will dig them up and post. These were taken Halloween weekend, while I was gone. It's really striking to me how much the kids have grown…

Holy sh*t this is it…

We are down to just about a month left in Beijing and that is hard to believe and a little hard to swallow. We are dealing with it by basically not dealing with it. We want to enjoy our last weeks here and not be too engulfed in the logistics…

Halloween

It really did kill me to miss Halloween.. Luckily, B took lots of pictures.

Wow

I don't have much to add to anything about the election a this time. I am trying to finish a column about watching it all from afar. I like this clip: v