Observations

On April 20, 2006, yours truly had arrived in Beijing, on his own, with a job to start and a bridgehead to establish for the family who followed a couple of months later.  Two years isn’t an extremely long period of time, but it is long enough to consider when reviewing periods of time [...]

The state of Israel uses the air raid siren systems three times a year for commemoration rather than “the real thing”.  Every year, on the twenty seventh day of the Hebrew month of Nissan (usually around April), at 11:00 AM the siren goes off in commemoration of the six million Jews killed by the [...]

Since Monday’s severe earthquake I’m not myself. I toss and turn at night. I get up almost every hour to check on the children, and my imagination works in overdrive. What if? What if it were closer to home? How do I protect my family? Obviously there are [...]

CNN and others have brought a very sensitive issue in recent days, in light of the horrible disaster in China. The One Child Policy. Here’s the “sensitive” title: “Parents’ losses compounded by China’s one-child policy”.

Regardless of the outstanding sense of timing in bringing it up. Regardless of whether or not I [...]

Lets get this out of the way first: I live and work in China, I love China, and there’s a good chance that the following will not be impartial.  You have been warned.

Two natural disasters have hit Asia in recent weeks.  A major Cyclone has hit Myanmar, and an extremely powerful earthquake has hit [...]