A Writer’s Blog

  • Originally posted on iLook China: A Guest Post by Richard Burger of The Peking Duck One of the questions I hear the most is whether the Chinese people’s attitude toward sex is conservative or open-minded. And the answer is that it’s complicated. First, there is more than one China: there’s rich China and poor China, urban and… Read more

  • I love hiking. My biggest challenges (for hiking) have been the week long hikes in the High Sierras (including the back country of Yosemite) sometimes reaching higher than 11,000 feet near the John Muir Trail. Heavy backpacks weighing as much as sixty pounds are a burden when climbing for miles with thousands of feet of… Read more

  • Two days after the first 2012 Presidential Debate

    Two days after the debate, a report says the jobless rate dropped to 7.8%, the lowest since 2009. This matches the rate when Obama took office. The number of unemployed in America is now 12.1 million. “An overall better-than-expected jobs report, consistent with most recent data that suggest the economy is gaining some momentum,” said… Read more

  • First 2012 Presidential Debate

    Fact check.org said, “Romney came off as a serial exaggerator”. Read more

  • Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: We went to see ‘Won’t Back Down’ with Maggie Gyllenhall and Viola Davis, a film that ignores many facts of a complicated issue that causes students to turn out illiterate and schools to be considered failures. Soon after the movie started, I complained. “If her (Jamie… Read more

  • Originally posted on Café Casey:   Bacon Academy band performs under the leadership of Tom Kessler[image: norwichbulletin.com] This past summer I attended a concert in honor of a person who profoundly influenced my life—my high school band director, Tom Kessler.  He was the kind of teacher who educated the “whole student,” and though I suspect… Read more