The First Group of Orphans

If you read my books, Lessons From China and Unseen Tears, you will hear me tell about a truly tragic event.  While I was teaching at a university in China, there was a fire in an illegal fireworks factory in a rural area a little over an hour’s drive from the...

The Rest of the Story

Ok, so there I was… walking in a parking lot in an upscale area of a very large city in northern China, when I saw something that literally made me stop and take a picture. This particular day it was probably about 82 degrees, so to most foreigners, this photo...

Cabbage

OK, so this title isn’t very catchy, but it is descriptive, because cabbage is what I am writing about today. In China there are many types of cabbage. The one most of us in the States are used to eating translates out to “big head cabbage” in the Chinese language,...