February 6, 2021• Travel
Xi’an and Beijing I spent the first day of 2021 breathing out contemplative puffs of frost-fog at Ditan Park. The plan was to...
July 28, 2020• Life
Posted from: Beijing, China Couple of days ago, on my way back home, I walked past the old retired couple that live next door to me....
March 12, 2020• Life
Posted from: Los Angeles My flight left Beijing – where I’ve lived and worked and studied since the early 2000’s – for DC...
August 18, 2016• Travel
Posted from: San Francisco, California One Valentine’s Day in the nascent months of World War II, and not long after the opening of...
July 17, 2016• Life
Posted from: Beijing, China Wang Wei took me ghost-hunting last week, some famous haunt off of 3rd Ring Road, built and neglected by a Hong...
April 4, 2016• Life
A few months after the divorce was final, in the early days of January, I spent a couple nights watching back-to-back auto industry...
July 10, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Taipei, Taiwan The national weather service tells me that Typhoon Chan-Hom is unlikely to make critical landfall near northern...
June 20, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Beijing, China This is one of several pieces I did on urban exploration for now-defunct website Smart Beijing. Holed up in his...
May 19, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Beijing, China This is one of several pieces I did on offbeat urban tourism for now-defunct website Smart Beijing. I like...
April 23, 2015• Travel
Wuhan, China I realized as I sat next to it with a bowl of reganmian that I’d never actually seen the Yangzi. It’s muddy. We...
