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...
March 30, 2015• Tech
Sometimes you have one of those conversations that’s so full of new ideas, it pinballs around your head for days. I enjoyed one of...