Summer of Silence
Last summer was all about the festival. I walked down the street to the Fremont Solstice Fair, traveled to a remote fjord in Iceland for...
Bunny Fear
No other animal had ever inspired in me so much fear; not the neighbor’s dog that chased me into the house when I was three;...
The Gift of Lily
We were having fun acting like tourists in Qingdao, but I never forgot the real reason for our visit; even as we bought cheesy souvenirs...
Nabucco at Seattle Opera
“Zeus isn’t real,” my daughter confided one day when she was four. “How do you know?” I asked. “Yesterday I told a lie on purpose...
The Kindness of Strangers
We were walking from the Tsingtao Brewery to Taidong Shopping Street. Beer Street fizzled out after the giant neon rainbow arch anchored by beer bottle...