Tea is the New Coffee

Ni hao!  I write this post sitting in an airplane, sipping Chinese tea, somewhere over the East China Sea on my way to Hong Kong with Marc and Ian, having just spent a week touring Beijing and Shanghai.  Once again, I have evidence that human beings – irrespective of our histories, cultures, backgrounds – require […]

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Take a Picture

A few weeks ago, my family and I went to New Jersey to visit my dad’s first cousin.  It was a bit sentimental for all of us – for one thing, my brother, Shawn, brought his two kids, Maya and Noah, and we all spent an afternoon on the beach in Atlantic City.  It was […]

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