… and they’re outta here
Sunday, July 10th, 2005Grace and Jiji have left China
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To answer or not to answer
Monday, June 27th, 2005Someone asks a question.
How do you respond?
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A day and a night
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
A typical day off spent with family,and a night spent walking with my wife
The day was bright
We had a good day
I was off
I went shopping
With Robert's technical help and Grace's linguistic finesse we managed to buy a Panasonic digital ... [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]
The spring course is wrapping up
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
The Spring course is wrapping up.
It means we are now in the crunch to prepare for the Summer Course.
The crunch is finding teachers.
Our student population has grown from a little less than 200 when I arrived to well over 600. ... [Continue reading this entry]
Entering May
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
That title may seem salacious, it's not meant to
Salacious titles aside May has come upon us.
It's hot here. My wife and I have just returned from a night at the Landmark Hotel in Changsha.
It's about 20 minutes walk from ... [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]
My Family … then and now
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
My birthplace is Canada, but home is where my family lives.
We are now in Changsha. The capital of China's Hunan Province.
We were in Jinzhou, Liaoning province.
We had been in Ilsan, South Korea for six months.
Ilsan is about one hour outside ... [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]
Back in Canada … for the moment
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
I'm back in Canada
Unfortunately it's to attend a funeral
On Friday night I checked my email and had a couple of cryptic messages ... call home/urgent and words to that effect
So I dug through my phone list and called home
Mom has ... [Continue reading this entry]
Wayne