Life in the Middle Kingdom

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For over a year, I've had this file on my desktop: It's the flight information for my August 5, 2012 flight from Beijing to Ce...

I visited China on a two-week student trip way the heck back in 2005 and then lived in China from 2009 to 2012.  Having been both a visit...

Welcome to my blog's House-Cooling Party. When I moved out of my last apartment before going to China, my roommates and I had a House...

A couple days after I got back to America, my sister and I went shopping.  (Three years in China is not kind to any wardrobe.)  At the mall...

One of the nice things about teaching in the Summer Teaching Program last month is that I was observed by several different experienced tea...

I'm back in America but I'm lagging about a week behind in blogging.  If only for my own satisfaction, I plan to do a couple last p...

While in Ningxia, I embarked on a quest to photograph all the different varieties of noodles I ate.  With noodles for most lunches and a fe...