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Spending the Summer in Shanghai is Forcing Me to Learn Mandarin
I have not posted lately due to several factors, including helping to coach my son’s soccer team, watching my son play baseball, keeping my soon-to-be-four-year-old daughter occupied, and the usual...
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What I’ll Have to Do Without in China
As I said in a previous post, my family is going to be living in Shanghai for just under a month and a half while my wife teaches in a Study Abroad program run by a Chinese university. We leave in two...
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Ready or Not
We leave for Shanghai in a few days, with a stop in Chicago to visit family before we fly out of O’Hare airport. We’ll be there for six weeks. We’ve been doing a lot in preparation for the trip. (Image...
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The Air We Breathe in Shanghai
Every day here in Shanghai it has been hazy. The haze comes from both the humidity (currently 56% at 93 degrees °F) and the legendary pollution….Okay, maybe it is just the pollution… Here are a couple...
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Bye-Bye Diaper Bag!
Last Friday as I was doing some cleaning in the kitchen, I came across the diaper bag. This was our second diaper bag. We used diaper Bag #1 with Henry for awhile, and then that one met it’s end after...
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My First 5k
On October 7th I will run my first 5k race. It’s official. I signed up and paid money to run in the MSU Federal Credit Union Dino Dash. I chose the race because I thought by October I’ll have enough...
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My Summer Training Program (aka Running and Walking in Shanghai)
As I said the other day about running my first 5k, I managed to run steadily during our time in Shanghai this summer. Shanghai has a subtropical climate. Running in this kind of very hot and humid...
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So I Ran That 5K
This past Sunday I ran that 5K I said I was going to run a few weeks ago; The Dinosaur Dash. It’s the first 5K and the very first race I have run in. The skies were overcast and the temperature was...
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I’m a Fathermucker
When I first heard about the novel Fathermucker by Greg Olear I immediately added it to my Amazon.com Wishlist. I use that wishlist as a list of Things I Really Ought To Read. If a particular book is...
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Some Housecleaning
Picture of the Bean and the sky taken two years ago in Chicago in Millenium Park. It was time to change to look of the blog. Overdue, really. The monochrome design had outlived its Sell-By date. This...
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Wistful Panic
Wistful : adjective, full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy. – Merriam-Webster’s dictionary That’s what Stephanie and I are feeling these days as we prepare to move back to the US. Her...
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Readjusting
Last summer, the Summer of Leaving, was a blur of fixing up the house, packing, and trying to finish the seemingly endless tasks big and small needed to move to Istanbul. This summer, the summer of...
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Every Trail Has an End
I began composing a draft of this post in the Fall of 2013. Back then I had made up my mind that after we returned from Turkey I would stop blogging. For blogs to be essential reading they need a...
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