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Well, our trip to the countryside for Easter was very fun and refreshing. We didn’t really have any big agenda other than to let the girls play in our friends’ spacious back "yard" (i.e one big, fun sandbox!); enjoy good conversation, hardy meals, rest and relaxation; and to take part in all the Easter festivities…
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No email, no internet, no Chinese cable television–we’re heading out to the countryside this weekend to visit with some friends who work with our company. It will be fun to get away for a long weekend. Anna is looking forward to playing with our friend’s rabbit. Sarah began crying because she thought we were taking…
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Sometimes I get onto the internet, check my blog, and find myself truly disappointed that there isn’t a new post waiting for me. Can you believe that? It’s almost as if my true self and my Yeti alter-ego have split into two distinct individuals. One posts blogs and the other reads it. My reader-self is…
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This article is no a laughing matter: Students Urged to Laugh Out Loud (March 23, 2007, China Daily) Students at Fudan University are being invited to laugh away their cares and concerns by joining a new club set up by members of the faculty. The "Heartfelt Laughing Club", which opened earlier this month, was set…
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Something I don’t recommend (illustrated here): Yes, it was bound to happen. After my brief three-week comeback, I sprained my ankle playing basketball yesterday. It couldn’t have come at a worse time. I was starting to get a little bit more stamina on the courts, my "stroke" was coming back, and my language buddies were…
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Today we came home from our language class to discover that Anna lost her very first tooth! Very momentous around here… We knew it was bound to happen. That little white piece of calcium has been hanging in the wind for days (weeks?) now it seems. I was explaining the lumberjack term, timber!, to Anna…
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Most days in Xining (China’s quaint, backwoods Louisiana equivalent) it’s easy to feel as if you have been transported back in time to the 1980s. Maybe it’s the knee-high leather boots the girls wear. The Cyndi Lauper-like multi-pattern post-punk skirts. The new-wave envious hairstyles. The guys, unashamedly, donning hot pink sweat-suits. Whatever the tell-tale signs…
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Just finished the last book in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength. This book kind of felt like the series became a car crash with his other work, The Abolition of Man (which I enjoyed when I read it), a few volumes of Arthurian legend, a Boris Karloff movie (i.e. disembodied heads being re-animated)…
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If you are a fan of the highly dysfunctional (now defunct) TV series Arrested Development, as I am, you will appreciate this interview with "Buster" (Tony Hale). While Gob is still my all-time favorite Bluth, Buster has to rank a close second. Reading this interview it’s cool to hear his views on the Christian faith…
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Sarah: (Running to me this morning before she went off to pre-school) Daaaaaaddddddy! I bend over and hug my little girl. It’s a touching moment between father and daughter. Sarah: (After our brief embrace.) Daddy, can I smell you? Me: Sure. Sarah: (Leaning in, she smells my neck. Grinning…) Daddy, you smell kind of stinky.…
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