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Welcome to Wenzhou

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Welcome to Wenzhou
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In China again

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I’ll be in China again … at least for a week
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Tenuous? I laugh at tenuous

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
I'm afraid it looks grim for our hero ... the blender's on puree I have a lead on a job here,but it's a fairly tenuous one. What the hey ... most of my life is tenuous By chance I ran into ... [Continue reading this entry]

An ending and perhaps …

Thursday, January 5th, 2006
There have been a few changes at work in the last few months. We've managed to weather the storm. We'll be moving on at the end of this month.
We'll be in Indonesia, but haven't chosen which city to stay in. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Pandas and pedicabs … A trip to Chengdu

Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Pandas and pedicabs Pandas and pedicabs We visited Chengdu last week A holiday before the holiday I took a few days so I could spend time with my wife and son and visit a friend Steve, who taught with me in Jinzhou and Changsha, is ... [Continue reading this entry]

A boy, a dog and a tomato

Thursday, May 26th, 2005
We went shopping today Robert had a great need to see the traditional market and I had a great need to test-drive the new camera Wyatt had other needs ... Emily coaxed me into joining her at the market I had prepared to veg ... [Continue reading this entry]

Details and duty

Monday, April 18th, 2005
We talked about what was possible,doable and useful. Should I fly to Canada? Mom had died. I had suspected as much after the first cryptic email. Or, to be more precise, I had an inkling of this after the first email and the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Snow lay all around

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
The day dawns inappropriately bright. Snow covers the ground and the way is icy. We arrive at the church I had not seen my mom in five years and this was not the way I'd wanted to see her again She lay there ... [Continue reading this entry]

Just returned

Saturday, February 26th, 2005
After the Winter Course 2005 We'd just finished winter course and had some travel arranged ... we took off for Hainan. Hainan is in the south of China. Actually a tropical island. We spent our time in ... [Continue reading this entry]

Shades of John Denver

Friday, January 20th, 2006
Bags are almost packed and we're almost ready to go Friday the twenty seventh of January will be my last day here Soon we'll be back in sunny Surabaya