You may have noticed I haven’t been around very much lately. It’s not because I don’t have anything to say, it’s just that I’ve needed a break. Last week was our last week of classes. Just when I thought I was started to get some energy back as I near the 2nd trimester, I got [...]
Taiwan has a few rules in their visa granting procedures that frankly don’t make a lot of sense and, to put it mildly, make life difficult for me. The first rule is that language students can’t have wives that are just here being a wife, she needs to be a student herself or have a [...]
There is a great Chinese saying, actually there are millions of great Chinese sayings, but one that I like in particular is a way to say you are tired that literally means: “I am so tired I feel like a fish that has been half eaten and needs to be flipped over so the other [...]
When do you think summer begins? According to the western calendar the official start of summer was yesterday, June 20th. In some people’s opinion summer begins with the arrival of shorts and flip-flop weather. By this standard summer in Taiwan began sometime around the beginning of April and hasn’t even come to Vermont yet (where [...]
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” ~Matthew 6:28, 29 For me, the highlight of our trip to Alishan was seeing all the beautiful flowers in bloom. Alishan [...]
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