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Yangshuo: Grateful for Rain
Yes, that’s right. I was grateful for the “bad” weather during my time here. Crazy, huh? Well, normally I’d wish for blue skies just like the next fella, but something about this place made the rain...
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Fore!
I returned home to Zhuhai from Hong Kong. And last week I had the cool chance to check out a fancy-schmancy golf club here in south China. Since the grass must be getting greener these days back in...
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Front and Center
China, like anywhere, is a land of economic disparity. Recently, I had an interesting illustration of this. It got me thinking of why such “unfairness” exists. It starts with the bus stops in Zhuhai....
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China: Bone-Breaking Pressure
In China around 1000 years ago, a unique trend began in the area of fashion, custom, and duty. Parents started to tightly wrap the feet of their young daughters so the feet wouldn’t grow large. This...
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Studying Tai Chi: The Students, The Landscapes
I attended a music camp back in high school. We rehearsed with this involved, focused presence, only a few days to master our music for a performance at weeks end. These rehearsals were different than...
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Book Alert! (and new, old article)
Some of you have been awesome and followed me around China for as long as I’ve been blogging here on Area Voices. Others of you are also awesome and enjoying some of my older pieces in black and white...
View ArticleNew Plateaus’ 1st book!
After eighteen months of writing about humanity and my experiences abroad, I’ve deemed it time to assemble a book (and an eBook) of my writings while living in China and traveling Asia. This time...
View ArticleThe Next Bigotry
The last few weeks I’ve written about the changing dynamics of our communities. For a few reasons, the city and the neighborhood just aren’t as important to people as they once were. But, they still...
View ArticleI made it on MPR: )
A couple weeks ago many of you read my take on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. Well, Minnesota Public Radio enjoyed it and featured it on their site today: ) Check it out:...
View Article5 Days To Go
New Plateaus’ first title is being released later this summer! For those of you who don’t know, I spent a year living in and traveling around China. I wrote a ton about my time there (many of my...
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