Some British things don’t make sense across the pond. By sheer luck this week, I discovered that I won’t be able to bring Christmas Crackers to the US for the holidays. L and I were talking about Christmas plans and…
Autumn in London, double-decker busses, and other things that leave a pit in the bottom of my stomach
The greatest roller coaster you can experience in England is that feeling you get walking down the stairs of a moving double-checker bus. It’s a full-body experience. The driver is forging on, as if the secret to life, universe, and…
Shanghai, the sequel.
It’s a testament to how many foreigners must have left over the last year that both of my cab drivers yesterday were of the talkative variety..
London Summers
Something about the summer heat turns polite British people into monsters.
Resources for Writing
It’s difficult. It’s so difficult to build tension, to make people you’ve made up on a page sound like human beings, to make readers root for or against someone.
The Didi that didn’t stop on Yongjia rd..
There’s this moment I think about a lot. I’m in a cab, going down Yongjia Road, crossing the Shanghai Culture Square and Maoming South Road. I’m on the way to J+S. And then I start sobbing. I’m leaving China in…
On January..
Now, one of the things I don’t love about London is that getting anywhere, absolutely anywhere, takes an hour. It’s great for getting through your Kindle read. It’s not great when you’re in Wimbledon at 11:45 on a Saturday night and facing a 1+ hour commute home.
Why does the sun set at 3:30pm? And other questions I ask myself in England
I’d like to issue an official apology to Charles Dickens: Charlie, I get it now. Winter in Great Britain sucks. It’s cruel, cold, and dark.
2023 Goals
When I think about things I want to accomplish in 2023, just having the freedom to make New Years resolutions is overwhelming. Seriously, this is like breathing fresh air after a year of being chased by a dark cloud of…
Un-settled
The city is pure chaos. I can smell the four-day old pork of the meat vendor mixing with the sickly sweet fried dough of the shop next door.