**Looking through my travel journal for inspiration, I came across this 2019 entry I’d written about China. Before the world shut down, Beijing was one of my favorite and most frequent layover destinations. However, following Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric along with recent reports of hate crimes against Asians, this 2019 entry is inserted into a new…
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It’s graduation season, and this year, I happen to have many graduates in my life. So, I thought I’d write an (unsolicited) advice blog for the class of 2021. Normally, I don’t like to give advice because I don’t pretend to have anything figured out, but what the hell? Here goes… My advice: # 1….
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For Mother’s Day, I invited my mom to dim sum in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Since I have a broken ankle and my mother has a walker, we didn’t cover much ground -only about a 4-block radius. San Francisco is a great walking town unless you have a broken ankle or a walker. Then, it’s a…
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If you like history and architecture and books, then you’ll like this blog. This blog is dedicated to literary houses, that is, houses either lived in or written in by literary giants. Not all of them, just the ones I’ve visited: Ernest Hemingway, Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Mitchell. I love looking into…
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Wait, where? Pearsall, Texas, y’all. It’s my hometown. And it also happens to be the hometown of the king of country music: George Strait. In fact, his dad, Mr. Strait, was my brother’s math teacher. My grandmother, a little Mexican lady who didn’t speak English, was so proud of this native son that she kept…
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