I’ll admit that I’ve been up since 4am almost every morning this week, woken by […]
Last week, we took an overnight train to Sapa, the hill tribe tourist hub in […]
In the summer of 2006, I decided to take the train from Istanbul to Damascus, […]
I didn’t always live in Shanghai. Or Hanoi. Although this blog places my online identity firmly […]
It’s damp season here in Hanoi. The moldy months are in full swing and I’m feeling […]
This one has been worming its way through my head for about a week […]
One day, not so long ago, when we were still in the exhausting throes of impenetrable […]
It’s hard to write about your homeland. I’ve spent decades honing my skills at describing […]
Back when we first found out I was pregnant, about a million years ago in […]
After a few months’ hiatus from my ongoing whirlwind Tour de Chine (the Academic Route), […]
I’m a surprisingly private person. I’ve only started realizing that recently. This may come as news […]
On the morning we left Shanghai for Bali, I was sitting on my bed sometime around […]