2018: A Year Well-Lived?
Retrospective time. Inventory-taking and all that. So, 2018 was wild. I don’t think I’d be making an overstatement to say it has been the best year of my life thus…
Tag: travel
Dripping with Wonder: Impressions of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo
Japan is what first sparked my interest in living abroad. The promise of something so unlike what I saw everyday, the energy, the atmosphere. A change from the sweaty days…
Shanghai: A Refuge of Familiarity
How It Started The first time I went to Shanghai, China I was in somewhat of a slump. I had been back in China for just about three weeks and…
China: Here We Go Again
It Wasn’t Easy It took over half a year of effort, but I have made the leap back to China. In a small (again, by Chinese standards) city called Huzhou…
A Dip into Moscow: Behind the Not-So-Iron Curtain
I chose to live in Moscow, Russia due to the compromise it allowed me: I did not have to go back to living in the US, but at the same…