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Our International Journey Through a Pandemic

When home is calling during a worldwide pandemic, which never seems to end, you do everything in your power to

Once I when I was counseling a Chinese immigrant student in the US, I mentioned that I had gone back

I didn’t believe in reverse culture shock until I experienced it for myself. Everyone knows about culture shock — that

December is finally here and I’m actually looking forward to Christmas which contradicts how I generally feel about Christmas. For

Call me “Helpless”, but after watching the live-stage performance of the musical “Hamilton”, I simply had to write about Phillipa

Before the virus, it seemed unimaginable that my colleagues at the office in Beijing would brave the snarl of traffic

I appreciated my friend Jocelyn’s recent post about how she and all my other introverted friends are reveling in the

I remember being at work in December and editing a story with a title “WUHAN PNEUMONIA”. It was a short

For years I have lauded barber shops in China as one of the greatest things about living in this country.

Writing a novel is time consuming and emotionally draining. I know that so well. Although I am not a professional