My photographer is on the drink again. I told him that we’d both need to be sharp and on our best behavior for this story, but somewhere in between the phone call and the taxi ride to the Bison club, he managed to swill down a load of Cheap Chinese spirits. I do not like [...][...]
A Year in the Isles of Wind (Part Three)
Our early days in late Autumn on Penghu were fine as we explored the beaches and temples. The weather was breezy, but nothing too extreme. But around Christmas the winds picked up, and by mid January they were up to what Penghu residents refer to as “normal speed.” At one point during the Luna[...]
A Year in the Isle of Winds (Part Two)
Situated in an extremely strategic point, roughly halfway between mainland China and Taiwan, Penghu has had the historical good (or bad, depending on your point of view) luck to lie at a nautical crossroads for merchants, militarists, and pirates plying the seas between Japan and Southeast Asia. F[...]
A Year on the Isles of Wind (Part One)
Not long into my wife’s one year contract at a small school here in Penghu we both realized we were desperate to leave. I know what you’re thinking: If this is a travel article, we’re off to a bad start. Travel articles are supposed to make readers want to visit the place being written[...]
Breakfast in Tienanmen
Tienanmen Square, 1989[...]
May 6th, 2010 - 2:39 am § in Uncategorized
Uncles and Daughters of Mother Lake
Some cultural diehards insist on clinging to the antiquated American 1950’s sitcom notion of “a nuclear family”; one father, one mother, and a combination of siblings roughly divided up to make the average norm of 2.5 children. But there are some cultures in which this notion of family would s[...]
