A Few of My Favorite Foods

You can’t beat a good night out with delicious Chinese food. I took these photos at a restaurant i went to tonight:

Meet David

David is Chinese. David is a master at the piano. David has mastered the English language. David’s pronunciation is excellent, fluent, and native. David’s family is not wealthy or well known. David is 14 years old. David is blind.
He came over to our office building the other night because a local film company is filming [...]

Snow and Tigers

Today it snowed again in Beijing. We’ve been getting a lot of snow this season. When i woke up i noticed that huge chunks of snow were falling. This blast of snow made getting to work painfully long. It’s normally a 45 minute commute from door-to-door, but today it took about 1 hour and 45 [...]

Crowd Surfing

My friend teaches some of the foreign teachers’ kids in Beijing. She sent me a message the other saying that one of her 6th grade students wrote a paper about his experience in Thailand during the Winter break. One of the highlights of his time in Thailand was when he saw me crowd surfing among [...]

Fishies

Tattoo

They Suck Your Blood

Step one is that the nice Thai ladies wash your feet in a small plastic basin and it feels all too familiar to those awkward moments on the last night of youth camp. Next, you sit on a nice padded cushion above a tank of hundreds of cruising little sucker fish. Then you put your [...]

The Inevitable New Years Blog Post

(I wrote this a couple of days ago and just found internet access to get it to you)
Everyone all across the blogosphere is blogging about the new year. New years parties, new years resolutions, reflections on 2009, hopes for 2010. Some are funny, some are inspiring, some are silly, some are cliche, some are brilliant. [...]

Social Media Meet Real Life

I’m currently hanging out in St. Louis, Missouri working at a large conference. While i was having a conversation with someone i was called over to meet someone else. I recognized this friend, but couldn’t quite place where i knew them from. They told me we have been friends on Facebook for a couple of [...]

Biscuet the Babysitter

Most people are scared to ask me to babysit. They are completely justified in their fear. I don’t think i’ve ever actually been given such a daunting responsibility. That is, until tonight. I’m in Fort Collins, Colorado and after a day full of meetings i was asked to watch a few kids for a few [...]