Mark Rothko’s Garage There’s a picture somewhere that shows an aging Mark Rothko, maybe somewhere around 50, sitting in his garage on a meta...

Going to middle school. Every school that I’ve been to in China has a solid band of color painted to about 4 feet up the wall. It’s just som...

The Bird’s Nest. Visiting the Olympic Garden in the Northern part of Beijing these days is a little bit like going to a mausoleum. The park,...

Snapshots. I've been a little busy to write longer pieces lately, but I wanted to put a bunch of random stuff up anyway. It's from t...

The day that Barack Obama won the presidential election, in Beijing. We sat under the trees, watched the branches sway and stared to the sky...

Boys and Girls in Beijing. What do you get, coming out of high school with a head full of cheesy pop songs, a thousand movies about cliché r...