gemma D. alexander

When my oldest daughter was ten, she and I visited her birth city, Qingdao. Every day, we woke up early and gorged ourselves on the...

I’m not one for new year’s resolutions, but I do love documentation. As a perfectionist, I like to have thorough records. And as a perfectionist,...

My heavy metal origin story is so embarrassingly cliche: I started dating a guitar player in high school. In my defense, I was studying violin...

People behave badly at Chinese zoos. China just doesn’t have the same standards for animal welfare, and most people aren’t as familiar with wildlife as...

I began the month of December in Hong Kong, where I kept working while my kids trained in kung fu. But when I got home,...