Sunday morning in Shanghai
Until today, Nanjing Road has been my least favorite district in the city. It's a broad pedestrian shopping avenue teeming with hustlers...
Culinary oddities unattempted
I have thus far managed to locate only one cafe on my street with an English menu. There, one might order the following dishes, among...
Lessons in navigating Shanghai
I. A pedestrian never has the right of way. Nevermind the crosswalks and do not trust the little green man on the traffic light. The...
Impressions of China
Shanghai sprawls like a sleepy lounge singer under silky robes of motionless fog, making the city look like an antique Chinese watercolor...
Seven hours until liftoff
I am surfing through the strangeness of that piquant, fleeting moment when you realize you will never be the same.
The unspeakable loveliness of leaving
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas, Texas called Grand Prairie, the only child of two teachers, and I was a solitary but exuberant creature...
