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Do you have any favorite foods that you would call inexplicable? It’s a strange question. Let me rephrase: Sometimes in life you get used to eating certain things–a certain brand of peanut-butter, a certain type of cereal, or even a typical recipe your mother used to make. After an extended period of time of eating…
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It seems that China is now in the rain making business. (Read this.) Do you think Seattle could somehow find a way to reverse this process? Perhaps fire a cloud-retractor pod into the O-zone?
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For those of you who don’t live here in Xining, this post will likely be of no interest. For those of you who do live in Xining, but who don’t live in my apartment complex (what I call the Haiguan Duimian Xiao Qu) this post will probably be of little interest. Even for those fortunate…
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This painting is called The Hermit and was done by the Russian artist, Mikhail Nesterov. It seemed suitable to my current situation of relative solitude. I’m curious where this old guy is headed with his walking stick and keys. I assume he’s headed back from his morning walk to his apartment or hillside cave. Yeti-like,…
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As I looked out of the train car at the familiar urban landscape, Karen Carpenter’s voice crooned softly over the train’s loudspeakers–and I smiled to myself–because I knew I was back "home" in Xining. Of all the places this train had chugged through in the past 34 hours, the landscape in Qinghai and Gansu province…
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A few hours ago I put my good friend, Josh, on an overnight train from Shanghai to Beijing. He only knows a few words in Chinese (i.e. he can say "hello/thank-you/I’m stufed" and has nearly mastered his numbers from 1-10.) He is alone in a strange country, left to fend and find for himself, for…
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We’re headed to Beijing tonight with the Bayles. Our visit so far with them has been GREAT (with a capital ‘G’). The Great Wall awaits… I don’t want to steal any of their thunder, so here are a few "teaser" photos from the Bayles’ time with us visiting some sites in and around Xining… (Just…
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Our good friends, Josh & Laura, arrived in Xining at about 2 p.m. today! It’s been a whole year already; so it’s so great to finally see them again. I think all six of us (Anna & Sarah included) were just beaming in our reunion the whole day. It’s a lot of fun having them…
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At what point do you start to ask yourself whether your child’s somewhat idiosnycratic behavior might actually be a more serious (psychological) condition? I’m speaking a bit tongue-in-cheek here when I ask this question, but I think you’ll see that I can make a pretty good case to show that my eldest daughter (Anna, age…
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