I flew all the way back around the world for a brief visit home. This might not have been the first sight to greet me, but it was certainly a focal point as I moved through the Indianapolis International Airport. I don’t think this would qualify as ironic, though it might be. I leave China […]
The best sleep is jet-lagged sleep, if you can hold out to where it’s time for bed. It’s the closest experience I have to sleeping “like the dead,” as the saying goes. On a normal night, I believe myself to be a light sleeper. But really, I have to insist everyone give jet-lagged exhaustion sleep […]
I was hoping to use the verb “shanghai” in this post, because I got stuck on a plane and wound up in one of those crazy travel situations. Unfortunately, I looked up the word first. Research has the sad characteristic of poking holes in what we wish we could say: To shanghai: 1. To kidnap […]
Before I go home for a week’s vacation, my boss offered to drop me off for a day trip to see the Leshan Buddha. This particular Buddha is the world’s largest (carved of stone), a great carving straight into the side of a mountain. He sits at over 200 feet tall. Note: I find the […]
While writing my piece on Hangzhou, there was a third aside I deleted. The piece was growing very long, and I already ramble. I decided to put that rambling here – give it space to breathe and be a larger reflection. It has to do with the grandiose idea of civilization. In one of my […]
Gal's Got Moxie 