Somehow a bunch of drums one could beat seems appropriate In recent weeks, a spate of opinion pieces have come out that lay out three very d...

I don't know why this photo resonates vis-à-vis this post, but it did. It doesn't matter if they're locals or immigrants -- more...

Sometime around 1916, my great-great grandfather converted to Islam.  Five generations later, nobody in the family knew about it. It wasn...

國破山河在 I have a hankering to learn the oud.  I don't know if it has to be an oud exactly. I'd be perfectly happy with a saz or a kanu...

The photo suits the post and you already know why Two days ago, Donovan Smith wrote a fantastic column on Ma Ying-jeou's entrée into th...