Further Coronavirus Updates from Friends and Colleagues
Thanks to my local doctor, my masks are ready to go for my return to China … whenever that might be. Since my last report, so many happenings concerning the virus have been announced via the...
View ArticleMore Coronavirus China News: “It will be over soon”
“Are you on your phone again?!” my 86-year-old mother disdainfully utters as, throughout the day, I constantly check messages from China. She is not an avid or adept cell phone user, although she now...
View ArticleFrom America, the daily English prayer still continues
Photo taken last year: The Everlasting Love Choir at the Luzhou Protestant Church: My steadfast church family! Can you find me? Hard to miss the blond hair! Below is an excerpt from my 2019 Winter...
View ArticleA year ago today: My Rescued Amaryllis
I had so much been looking forward to this time of year in China due to a particularly touching rescue which took place a year ago. I include my WeChat journal entry here to explain the story and my...
View ArticleEaster Sunday at the Luzhou Protestant Church: A Year Ago Today (reposted)
I remember, awhile back, promising pictures of the Luzhou Protestant Church’s Easter services on April 21. Let me make sure I post those here, along with a short explanation of what usually happens at...
View ArticleWhat’s it like in a Luzhou elementary school now?
I have quite a few former students whom I’m often in contact with. Many are now English teachers in their hometowns or in different cities throughout Sichuan province. During the COVID-19 lockdown,...
View ArticleMy Rescue in China: Ping-ping awaits adoption
It’s early evening in Illinois but late morning in China. This is the time when my phone begins dinging messages and videos from Wayne’s Pet World, the Luzhou pet shop and grooming center that...
View ArticleAn encounter in China changes forever how I regard others
The following essay was published in The Christian Science Monitor’s (CSM) Home Forum section in November (I believe) of 2008. I’ve sent it to the Nanjing Amity office as a contribution to the Amity...
View ArticleAn Earthquake Security Check
“Hey, Bruce!” I typed into my WeChat message to my Chinese colleague, “Bruce” Liu, yesterday. “Sorry to bother you again but have you checked on my apartment yet? I just want to make sure the recent...
View ArticlePromised from Last Entry: My Conversation with “Nancy”
I left you all with the cliffhanger of the interesting conversation I had with Nancy, one of my first students in China. She is currently staff manager of the Four Seasons Hotel in Guangzhou, seen...
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