Right at the top of my must-do-before-I-die list is a trip to a small Japanese mountain village covered in snow, where the white sheet of silence is punctured only by the occasional birdcall and perhaps the cracking of a frozen twig or the slightest crushing … Read More →
Category Archives: Books & Magazines
Exploring Hong Kong with “Exploring Hong Kong”
I’m not a fan of travel guidebooks. The maps are sometimes nice, but the mind-numbing lists of restaurants, hotels, and attractions could learn something from that old marketing adage, “choice suppresses response.” If you ever want to see me paralyzed with indecision, my eyes glazed, … Read More →
Just your everyday monster cockroach
When night falls on warm wet days the cockroaches come out of hiding. Monstrous cockroaches about two inches long and impressively plump, the kind a family of feral cats could feast on. A few days ago as I was walking home late at night, one … Read More →