Category Archives: North America

“Old” Home

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

In my first novel, Empire of Glass, I quote one of China’s greatest short story writers, Lu Xun, who wrote: The old home I remembered was not in the least like this. My old home was much better. But if … Continue reading →

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Silverlake Jubilee Festival – 5/27

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

For those readers eager for a taste of my fiction (an amuse bouche of literary delight?), I’m reading on the PEN Literary Stage at the Silverlake Jubilee Festival on Sunday, May 27 at 2pm. There will be kettle corn, cotton … Continue reading →

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In Celebration of Sendak and Siblings

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

I guess I was one of the lucky few who was up early enough on May 8th to watch the ‘Tell Them Anything You Want’ documentary about Maurice Sendak, author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ before HBO pulled it … Continue reading →

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Shadows, For Some: In Honor of Guillermo Fernández

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with shadows. From Cha: An Asian Literary Journal: THE INVENTION OF DRAWING “Shadow is the stuff that art is made on, according to one legend about the origin of painting. The first portrait was created when … Continue reading →

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Dying Dolphins

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

The recent news that the corpses of a dozen endangered river porpoises were discovered in China’s Dongting Lake deeply saddened me, but even more sadly, did not surprise me. The finless porpoise has been threatened by environmental toxicity in China … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Strange World?

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

An MIT study conducted in 1972 predicted that the world’s economy (and with it industrial output, services, pollution, and the global population) would hit a disastrous peak in 2030 (read: economic distress of irreversible global proportions) and then recoil in … Continue reading →

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Much A-Buzz About Something?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

Alright, that was a lame title, but an apt one given the subject of this post. For years now I’ve been dreaming of the lapis lazuli colored shores and sky of Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands National Park on … Continue reading →

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Let’s Hear it for… the Birds?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

So maybe I’ve been on a pro-local, pro-sustainable kick lately, but I don’t think this is a bad thing (and it benefits us all, so yes, you’re welcome… haha). But I was appalled when my husband and I recently received … Continue reading →

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Yesterday’s Trash is… Tomorrow’s Toothbrush?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

There is a thing, formless yet complete. Before heaven and earth it existed. Without sound, without substance, it stands alone and unchanging. It is all-pervading and unfailing. We do not know its name, but we call it Tao. .. Being … Continue reading →

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Earth-system governance

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

Reblogged from Wandering Gaia: London: A group of scientists is calling for a fundamental overhaul in the way international environmental issues are decided, including reforming the UN bodies and decision-making processes to make them fairer and more effective at providing … Continue reading →

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