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January 2005 - Posts

In the more than seven years that I have known her, my wife has never written a poem. At least, not one that she has shared with me. Today, however, she felt moved to pen the following verses on our relocation to Beijing and send them to me at work. With Read More...
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What makes being in a new country fun is learning your way around all the thousands of idiosyncrasies that color daily life. And few things are more idiosyncratic than the Chinese banking system. I thought I’d hit the limits of self-defeating stupidity Read More...
Or: The Headlong Collision of Two Kitty Cats with the Chinese Bureaucracy In the run up to our move to Beijing , one issue loomed large: what to do with our two house cats, Tiny and Xiao Xiong. Now, I can hear you thinking, cats is cats. No doubt they Read More...