By the Way

Much as I theoretically love the Christmas season, past Decembers have often been hard - sickness and depression and polluted skies and exha...

Five months and nine days after we entrusted our most important belongings to the postal service, our final package arrived! When we unwit...

I have been thinking a lot about what my cousin told me a number of years ago. She had just lost her mom, my aunt, and I had just suffered a...

We have now lived in our America house for 6 months! There are still moments when I think, “How is this our house? How do we actually live h...

One year ago I rushed around uplugging appliances and zipping suitcases, making sure everything was ready for our vacation. We bundled up in...

I found my keys.   I rifled through a not-quite-unpacked suitcase in preparation for moving, and there they were: the round apartment key,...

We bought a house. In America. Well, we are in the process of buying a house. One Saturday in June, on our third morning of house-...

Our plants are slowly dying.  Our ayi (house helper) planned to come and water them while we were away, but two days after we left, China s...

When I look out the window, I see a gloomy haze of smog.  The sun has barely attempted to rise; the nearby mountains may as well not exist. ...