This is an amazing book. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is about one family’s experience in China before and during the Communist era. The author’s parents were high up in the Communist Party at the time of the Communist Revolution, and then they suffered mightily during the Cultural Revolution. The author, Jung Chang, has… [Read More]
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Why I love soccer
The second part to yesterday’s post. I’m not all negative – and here are some reasons I love soccer: It’s a cheap, safe sport for kids. Despite what you may think when you see the fits of pain that send professionals to the ground for minutes at a time, there are few serious injuries in… [Read More]
Why I hate soccer
With the World Cup going on hot and heavy, here are a few thoughts on why I hate soccer: There is way too much cheating, which offends American sensibilities. No one wants to fail and no one wants to cheat, but when failure is inevitable, different cultures have different responses. Americans tend to accept failure… [Read More]
Infrastructure, world trade, and O’Hare
Last year, I had the opportunity to tour the site of the new cold-storage facility at O’Hare Airport. (Like any good writer, I took the tour without neither assignment nor deadline, and good luck getting any writer to write anything without a deadline in hand.) The tour was organized by the government of Ecuador, in… [Read More]
