This past weekend, I attended a great event at the Monterey Bay Aquarium called "Cooking for Solutions". It's an annual event in its ninth year, featuring celebrity chefs doing cooking demonstrations and speaking on sustainable...
Rock Paper Tiger, an up-to-the-minute, kaleidoscopic romp through contemporary China with some side-stops in US-occupied Iraq, is the first novel of Lisa Brackman, already well known as a blogger. She’s also one of my best...
Photos by MJ Klein
Recently, Hui-chen and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary. We decided to spend it at the newly-built Sheraton Hotel in Jubei.
The room we stayed in was on the 21st floor. That is...
Like the bears that its hockey team is named for, the people of Boston tend to go into hibernation for the winter. Yes, there is ice skating on the whimsically named Frog Pond in Boston...
Claire took this photo of a neat bike rack in Salem, Oregon from the window of Turtle, our motorhome, as we drove into Salem to visit friends. The Android ap for uploading directly from the...
Claire riding a steep section of the hill just before Paradise, CA near Chico. We are guessing this section was maybe 12 percent. This is part of the Chico Century ride, and the site of...
One day I decided to hit the streets of Auckland, New Zealand and accost unlikely cruise ship tourists. The idea was to find out how they say Kiwi-isms (0r Kiwi Speak.) The result was pretty...
Sushi. Sashimi. Both delicious, both abundantly available in supermarkets and restaurants across Japan and of such a quality and price as to ensure that the next time I take a seat at a Yo!Sushi in...
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