Monthly Archives: March 2016
Emei. Part II
The internet blinked over here and the entire post I’d written (including all of the pictures uploaded) about our actual day on sacred Mount Emei vanished. Not worth rewriting, but trying again to post pictures. p.s. We never saw any … Continue reading
Emei. Part I.
Short notes from a weekend. Elle’s school was on holiday for Good Friday and Art doesn’t teach on Fridays, so we woke early and got out of town for Easter weekend to continue celebrating Art’s 65th birthday. Destination: Leshan, Emeishan, … Continue reading
A zoo is a zoo
The older I get, the lower my tolerance for zoos. That said, we spent 4 or 5 hours at Chengdu’s “Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding” center last week as one of Elle’s spring break activities, just like we … Continue reading
Wenshu moments
My colleague Brian happened to be in Chengdu last week and spent the afternoon with us on Sunday. After lunch at the Bookworm, we four wandered around Wenshu Monestary, a Buddhist temple, and its adjacent tea house. The tea house … Continue reading
Into thin air. Part I.
The timing of this entire China experience has been “off.” Once we knew we could not be here for the full academic year, we had to negotiate a way to make it work within both the terms of our employer … Continue reading
To return; come back
I’ve been hemming and hawing about this blog for several months as we’ve prepared to return to China. It exists, still, five years later, but what to do with it? Engage at all? Abandon it completely? Use it as a … Continue reading
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