I bike from my sister's house in Bay City to my parents' house in Long Lake in a day. View Larger Map It took me 10 hours the first time last...
Year: 2013
training
Took the Amtrak from Nevada to Michigan. One of the obviously scenic legs was Colorado, where we careened along riverside cliffs. Of course we...
on the train to chicago
On the train to Chicago, I sat with a man who was returning home and our conversation included the crime on the South-side of this US “Midwestern”...
Learning China
I am walking through my neighborhood park, which is outside my block of flats and across the street, but near enough to enjoy immediately. The sun...
Letter to Tsinghua Grad Students
Some laugh at me for taking my role as a teacher in China so seriously, but I feel it's my duty to instruct and demonstrate for the students that...
the importance of being me
ten years important here, take a look like Dostoevsky in that one book