Mag Lev

Mood Ring Momma commented the other day that I needed to write posts to induce people to visit China. Personally, I believe I am a big enough draw but whatever. Some folks need other reasons to visit like fantastic shopping, wondrous sights, and mouth watering cuisine. MRM is planning on spending her [...]

Merrily We Roll Along

While all of you in America were sleeping off your turkey tryptophane induced eating haze, the expats prepared for a Saturday Thanksgiving and waited for Mr. Understanding’s return from Guanzhou by playing cut-throat Uno on Friday night. The Brazilian neighbor child brought his Ipod and we listened to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, which [...]

Gobble Gobble (This post is up a few days late)

It is Thanksgiving Day here in the PRC. My children, who attend the American school, do not have today off as a holiday. With ovens too small to fit anything other than two Cornish game hens, many American expat families are opting for Thanksgiving in fancy hotels. A small number of [...]

Pinched Nerve

Obviously my post yesterday hit a few nerves, rankled a few consciences, especially those from whom I have still not heard. Many assumed, incorrectly, that I was writing about them. The people about whom I am writing don’t even read the blog so really, the offensive factor was greatly diminished.
Although [...]

Keep In Touch

My next topic is controversial but pertinent to the lives of all expats: long distance phone calls to friends and family. I am probably going to offend a lot of readers with this but I decided it was so important I’d risk being deleted from the lists of those who still send Christmas cards. [...]

Water Town

For our family’s first Chinese mini-adventure I decided we should make a trek to a water town. There are several to choose from relatively nearby but, being our family’s travel researcher, I decided we should go to Tongli, famed for its cinematic scenery and S@x museum (I am not actually going to write the [...]

Communist Block

For most of last week I had writer’s block and was only mildly frustrated that I could not get on to post on the blog. My piece about Day of the Dead was particularly insipid which I wrote off as post-burglary stress syndrome. My second post wasn’t so bad so I am [...]