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Bilinguilism Rules! (当然了！)
My thoughts exactly. Alright, as the Chinese speaker I will clarify this mistake. The first character '干' or 'gan' means 'dried' but is also slang for the naughty word mentioned above. Therefore, this...
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Looking Up
For my entire life, I’ve had trouble looking at the stars. Something about staring into that unknown, all the expansiveness of the universe, made me both queasy (literally) and uneasy. In recent...
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In Celebration of Sendak and Siblings
I guess I was one of the lucky few who was up early enough on May 8th to watch the ‘Tell Them Anything You Want’ documentary about Maurice Sendak, author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ before HBO...
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Guest Post: Chance Encounters
It used to be the norm for strangers to talk to one another on the street, hold doors for one another, chat in line at the bank. Now, given the proliferation of technological devices at our disposal,...
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Grounding Places: The Wealth of an Hour (or Two, or Three, or Four…)
I depart as air…. I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want...
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How We Remember
Writing a book is often a long, lonely process. When you finally ‘finish’ (whatever that means), you have this strange amnesia about how much work actually went into it (much like the experience of...
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Advice for the Itinerant
Early this morning, I steeped a cup of tea and looked out over the view that has been my home for eight years: the Pacific Ocean, the Santa Monica Bay stretching from Malibu to Rancho Palos Verdes....
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Resolutions of the Written Word: Lessons in Sustainability
“The mind of the man who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent. Kill, fly faster, love to your heart’s content. And if you...
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When the Clock Struck Twelve: Hong Kong, 2001
I have to admit: like many (including the writer of this Atlantic article), I’m not the biggest fan of New Year’s Eve. The celebrations always feel contrived, the parties overwrought. Not to mention...
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Tribute to This Evening, Courtesy of Pessoa
“Brief dark shadow of a downtown tree, light sound of waterfalling into the sad pool, green of the trimmed lawn — public garden shortly before twilight: you are in this moment the whole universe for...
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