396
Views
|
4
Comments
|
1
Articles
|
3/6/2012 9:33:36 PM
The call for stardom came quickly and unexpectedly as do most things in China – like earthquakes and cultural revolutions.
Read more…
897
Views
|
4
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
2/9/2012 8:06:28 PM
I’m continuing to search for gainful employment in Beijing (and elsewhere in China) and I’ve been able to cobble up a few freelance gigs, which pay grocery bills though not much else.
Read more…
443
Views
|
3
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
2/2/2012 8:27:54 PM
Funny how karma can unexpectedly come around years later, in distant places. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is not a household name, except with blues and jam band musicians and fans of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, both of which he co-founded.
Read more…
371
Views
|
5
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
1/4/2012 5:30:18 PM
I’m back in Beijing after nearly a year in the States being treated for colon cancer. Upon my return, a friend I’ll call B, who is a bit of a hypochondriac, suggested a visit to an eminent Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor for me. He’s so in demand that she says patients line up at 2 am in order to see him when the clinic opens at 7:30 pm.
Read more…
341
Views
|
0
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
12/15/2011 2:36:32 PM
I can't forget it, which is why I'm returning in about 10 days. Today I had my last VA appointment with my cancer surgeon, a lovely, skillful and thoroughly professional Kashmir-native female surgeon, Dr B.
Read more…
463
Views
|
1
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
11/22/2011 12:01:12 AM
I was in the backseat of a car cruising from Skaneateles, NY courtesy of my ‘cancer buddy’ a woman I’ll call E, and her husband G who had graciously taken me out on a short daytrip beyond the rancid boundaries of Syracuse for an afternoon and early evening of life on rarified side of the Finger Lakes.
Read more…
Tags
:
606
Views
|
5
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
10/15/2011 1:13:19 PM
I never intended this to be a “living with/surviving cancer” blog, of course. Since the breakup with C I'd posted on CLM all focused on new love, new opportunities and accentuating the positive. I just wonder though how many people, western and Chinese alike, present themselves in a totally honest manner.
Read more…
Tags
:
755
Views
|
4
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
9/11/2011 10:06:42 AM
C just called from Jerusalem to ask how I’m doing with my cancer. There. There’s a sentence – a thought, a concept – I could and would not have imagined a year ago.
Read more…
Tags
:
1244
Views
|
3
Comments
|
0
Articles
|
2/4/2011 7:26:08 PM
It was Wednesday February 2, Chinese Lunar New Year (Year of the ‘Wabbit) and I was at J’s apt with her husband, big brother, his girlfriend, an aunt and two uncles to for a traditional new year dinner.
Read more…
Tags
:
999
Views
|
0
Comments
|
1
Articles
|
12/26/2010 11:14:58 AM
I’ve been here so long now that Christmas in China is no longer a novelty. Just a reality, though events like my office Christmas party – scheduled at 7pm Christmas Day and featuring cheap beer, bad wine, soft drinks, wilting fruit and a sedate staff fashion and talent show – still kinda makes me yearn for office parties gone by. Like the one at the Denver Press Club where my newspaper’s aging married-with-children editor got sloshed and tried to express his heartfelt Christmas wish by sticking his tongue down the throat of a startled and shocked 20something clerk.
Read more…
Tags
:
