Rose Can Kick Your Tail

Rose can take you out. And i’m really honored to call her my friend. Her identity is found in something much greater than her talent, but check out this video… it’s a guaranteed jaw-dropper!

A Rainy Day on the Wall

Dear Biscuet.com Readers,
I was thinking about you today when i was on the Great Wall of China. So, i made this short video just for you:

7 Tips for a Great China Day

Here are 7 tips for a great day in China:

Wake up early and make yourself a cup of coffee and some delicious breakfast.
Go to lunch with Chinese students that you know and love. Listen to their dreams and goals. Encourage them. Listen to them as they encourage you and edify you.
Go buy a bag of [...]

Getting Your Do Did: a cultural experience

Getting a haircut in China is no ordinary task.
There isn’t much about America that i miss, but one thing i do look forward to is going to get a haircut and being able to explain exactly what i want. Every time i get a haircut in China i sit in the chair and remind myself [...]

Giving: Finally a Response

A few months ago i was visiting Thailand and had a lot of “me” time so i wrote a short series here at biscuet.com about Giving. That series sparked a lot of conversations both online and offline. I received several emails from people who resonated with what i was writing. And in my offline world [...]

Crisis Management

China is good at a lot of things. Really. They have a lot of skills. However, one thing they are clearly not very good at is crisis management. Sure, maybe they have reason to be a little freaked out because they don’t want another SARS incident. But didn’t SARS blow up the way it did [...]

I Have a BIG head

  
*from the 798 Art District in Beijing. My head is large.

Is This Still China?

Some remarkable things are happening in China. I think we can all agree that China is changing at break-neck speeds. However, today was one of those days that took me by surprise. I woke up this morning confident that this is still the China of olden days, but now at the end of the day [...]

How to DIY a Jet

This story comes from the endless archive of stories i have from teaching in a Chinese university:
Last Tuesday in my writing class we were discussing process paragraphs. A process paragraph is when you write a paragraph on how to do something. As a brief exercise i had the students write a simple process paragraph. I [...]

Turbulence

As i process my time in Laos i have a few stories to tell that aren’t really related to my actual time in the country. The first story is about turbulence:
I hate flying. Most people know that about me. The anxiety and sweaty palms and racing heart is all so draining for me physically and [...]