Some British things don’t make sense across the pond. By sheer luck this week, I discovered that I won’t be able to bring Christmas Crackers to the US for the holidays. L and I were talking about Christmas plans and…
Quintessentially British
Autumn in London, double-decker busses, and other things that leave a pit in the bottom of my stomach
The greatest roller coaster you can experience in England is that feeling you get walking down the stairs of a moving double-checker bus. It’s a full-body experience. The driver is forging on, as if the secret to life, universe, and…
Shanghai, the sequel.
It’s a testament to how many foreigners must have left over the last year that both of my cab drivers yesterday were of the talkative variety..
London Summers
Something about the summer heat turns polite British people into monsters.
Resources for Writing
It’s difficult. It’s so difficult to build tension, to make people you’ve made up on a page sound like human beings, to make readers root for or against someone.
The Didi that didn’t stop on Yongjia rd..
There’s this moment I think about a lot. I’m in a cab, going down Yongjia Road, crossing the Shanghai Culture Square and Maoming South Road. I’m on the way to J+S. And then I start sobbing. I’m leaving China in…