While Sarah is enjoying the domestic comforts of Downton Abbey, I’m in the sweltering heat of Southern China trying to get my dissertation proposal done and get started on my research. Progress is slow, but I think I’ll get there in the end. I arrived in Beijing on August 19 (or was the the 20th?) [...]
Read more →Sarah and I are particpating in this fundraising event on Saturday. Please consider donating — visit this website to donate online!
Read more →Summer has come to Vancouver! That’s all. I just didn’t want Marmaduke to be the first thing people see on this blog any more. It’s my fault that we don’t update this blog much any more, and we never sent out a Christmas update last year! We’ll get it together this year.
Read more →You may recall that when we first moved to Vancouver, we stumbled across the filming of the Marmaduke movie. Well, it’s coming out soon. If the movie were what the first 20 second of this trailer makes it appear to be — an adaptation of hundreds upon hundreds of one-panel cartoons in which the punchline [...]
Read more →Hello friends and well-wishers! Long time no anything on this blog! We owe you quite a few updates, but in the meantime, check out this great video of the “Wet Market Auntie” singing “Amazing Grace” and “How Great Thou Art!”
Read more →by Joel We don’t have any recent pictures of ourselves or Vancouver, so here’s a great picture of the harbor from the flickr user “ecstatiscist,” licensed by Creative Commons. I commented once to some friends that there’s a pattern that happens whenever somebody of our generation moves away from our hometowns, or, more usually, the [...]
Read more →The last quarter of the schoolyear is in full swing — my teaching load is 18 hours a week, for 4 different courses — and Sarah’s busy memorizing countless Chinese characters. We’re so busy, in fact, that the fact that we are leaving China in almost exactly eight weeks hasn’t really sunk in yet.But it’s [...]
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