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 […]
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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 […]