Category: 1000 Words

Giant Crab

When I was growing up, my family was really into sasquatch and ufos and ghosts. We dug anything that wasn’t supposed to exist. The tendency...

Cool Corner

Phoenix, Arizona is all suburb and no city. Growing up there accustomed me to a certain architectural homogeneity. On my first trip to Europe, I...

Night Shopping Circus

I think the Atrium City shopping street in Qingdao is meant to be experienced at night. It seemed pretty dead when I visited in midday...

Good News and Bad News

No, this doesn’t mean I’m done posting pictures of China. I’m just remembering the old story about how good and bad fortune aren’t always easy...

Hello MixC

As luck would have it, the largest MixC shopping mall in China had just opened in Qingdao a couple weeks before our arrival. It was...