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A year ago, on January 23rd, I landed in Taipei, home for Chinese New Year, to find that the city of Wuhan in China had been "locked...

Spent most of the morning traumatizing one of my cats, trying to feed her her medication. Cats really cannot be forced into doing...

Every time I walk out of my apartment complex, there are more posters. Notices and registration forms and pamphlets. This time I walked...

I’m trying to remember what life was like after the earthquake that hit Taiwan in 1999. It was a massive quake and killed over 2,000...

Yesterday an old friend half way across the world sent me a headline: Woman refused to evacuate without her cat. He asked, “is this...

Self quarantine day 10: 4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize;...

​It snowed last night in Shanghai. No, you can’t tell in the photos because it’s mostly just leaves (very nice ones) with a teeny tiny...

Cats really do make staying at home a lot less boring. Case in point, this morning I dropped my coin box. It took me until age 33.89 to...

I don’t usually celebrate Valentine’s Day, but since this year (by default) I am my own date (not my cats. I’m not that level of crazy...

Saw a squirrel 🐿 My first in Shanghai. I kid you not. If I wasn’t on my scooter with 10 second left at the stop light I would have taken...