By the Way

By Ruth And we're off! In half an hour, (hopefully) we will have started our migration to warmer climates. By tomorrow evening we'...

by Ruth China does strange things to your self-esteem. On one hand, you are viewed as a superstar. On the other hand, you have to continua...

By Ruth I have been doing far too much public singing lately. It’s not because I sing so well, but rather because I am a famous supers...

By Kevin "Do you want to come and eat jiaozi with us?" Wes asked, relatively certain that we'd say yes. After all, today is De...

Ruth just wrote about the same thing, but we decided to go ahead and post both of our thoughts...I'd encourage you to read hers too...ju...

by Ruth The strange thing was, when I got Christina’s text saying, “suicide,” I wasn’t even surprised. For a few more seconds, I kept imput...

by Ruth December is usually a fun month (Christmas), a crazy busy month (finals), a significant month for relationships (students are starti...

by Ruth Two Chinese major students were having dinner with Kevin, Wes, and I. Cherry is Wes’ Chinese tutor and Lily is ours. She is ...

by Ruth “I feel proud of us!” Laura said. “We pulled off a real Thanksgiving meal, just us kids.” We may not quite be kids anymore, but ...

by Ruth I finally put up some new pictures on flickr! I hope they actually show up, because our internet is really slow and they had a hard...