China family life

When still a child in the 70’s, I took a train from Louisville to Nashville on the L&N Railroad. Soon after that, those passenger trains stopped running. In most parts of America,...

Nothing much has happened. Okay. A lot has happened. But most of it is just the fact that we became acclimated to living back in China, that nothing seemed new or exciting enough...

Around 2002, the first Pizza Hut opened in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province. At the time, my wife and I lived about an hour away in Kaifeng. Growing up, I loved Pizza Hut’s...

Today is the 16th anniversary of our wedding On each wedding anniversary, my husband and I joke to each other: “We’ve been married this long?” “Yeah, I can’t...

We just left Chengdu in Sichuan province. Now the entire family wants to move there (except yours truly). It’s no wonder. Chengdu has everything one could hope to have in one...

I still get surprised by things in China, or how Chinese react to things. In the city where I live, we rarely have aircraft flying over the city, except for those just taking off or...