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What NOT to get your child for Christmas

Not sure if you can read this or not but it is an article about how a Chinese publisher “could not find” the German version of Grimm’s fairytales and so they used a Japanese version. Turns out it was a pornographic version with Snow White sleeping with her father and the dwarves (is that an …

You can’t read this article.

I just read a good article, but you’ll never know.  The problem is it wasn’t online or on the Kindle so while I’d love to share it with you it was in a magazine.  Yep, print, paper, ink and it was still a good story, but how will you ever know?   Contrary to popular …

5 Brothers book review

We have it.  We thought a nice Chinese story would be great for Baby G.  Wrong. It is a story about 5 identical “CHINESE” brothers with extraordinary gifts such as: 1.  Can swallow the sea 2.  Iron neck 3.  Long Legs 4.  Can’t Burn 5.  Can’t Suffocate The first brother “gets into trouble” when he …

Delta + Northwest = South’s Worst!

RANT WARNING ~LEVEL 4!~ You may have read my recent Delta rant. I left off another side story I thought I should share. We recently booked a trip using Skymiles. We only had so many in my Delta account and so many in B’s NWA account so we had to split the bookings. It came …

Asia. Not so weird?

We have been here too long. These things are just not that weird to us anymore: Taiwan.The other day I saw a family of 5 on a scooter. B was shocked. I was like, “What’s the big deal.” In the U.S. you would never see that (not because of laws, because an American family of …

Schools out to prevent swine flu?

Schools out to prevent swine flu? Originally uploaded by beuk I don’t get this. You let the schools out two weeks early to preventthe spread of swine flu and the next day all the kids are flooding theice rink? Doesn’t this speed the spread? Don’t you think isolation by school district is better? All youhave …

Chinese Medicine vs. Wet Hair

It is raining again in Taiwan. So? Its an island. It rains all the time, but today this means G comes home with wet hair. I don’t care, I love it when she runs down the hall and gives me a big wet hug. While we were discussing the days events (baking bread, singing songs, …