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…

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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…
Living Abroad, London, Writing ·
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…
China ·
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..
Living Abroad, London, Travel ·
Something about the summer heat turns polite British people into monsters.
blogging, Living Abroad, 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.
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…
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