You may have noticed that I haven't blogged all week. I've decided to take a blogging break for a bit - a few weeks maybe - to fi...

Welcome to the house of WEIRD FOREIGN PEOPLE Just for fun on a sunny morning, I wanted to make the quick observation that culture diff...

迢遞三巴路， 羈危萬里身。  亂山殘雪夜， 孤獨異鄉春。  漸與骨肉遠， 轉於僮僕親。  那堪正飄泊， 明日歲華新。 Farther and farther from the three Ba Roads,  I have come three th...

Photo of colorful yarn from here "I should let you know," I said recently on the first day of a new class, "that I'll...