Progressive Odyssey

Just posted a few more pictures to my Flickr site. There should be more photos in the near future. I just need to caption them. Oh, and ...

Before heading out to one of the tourist sites for the day, my wife and I stopped into the local Subway to get some sandwiches for the road...

As I've written before, the car is not the primary means of transportation for most people living in Beijing. Public transportation and...

One of the problems with the one-child policy in China is the ease at which that one child can become the center of the family's existen...

As you might expect in a country that doesn't have the Western cultural heritage, Christmas is a bit different than it is in the States....

I've (finally) updated my Flickr stream with a handfull for photos from our stay here. (One of our friends here said that she checked ...

As in many countries throughout the world, traffic in Beijing is something very different than what I am used to in the USA. Calling it cha...

Going outside feels risky. I'm not worried about being mugged or my pocket being picked. I'm worried about the truth of my comple...

With climate change, renewable energy, and emissions control all the rage in the western media these days, China has been receiving a fair s...

I've heard it many times in many places but the reality is sinking in now that I can see it for myself: labor in China is cheap. Our ho...

We have arrived in Beijing and travel was incident free. Well, almost. Snow in the "mid-west" (is Kansas part of the mid-west?) ke...

...my wife and I will be in Beijing. We're going out to visit some friends for a while and are eagerly awaiting the trip. The run-up t...

If you go to the home page of the iTunes Music Store and look at the list of the current top-selling songs you’ll see (at the time of this w...

A little over a week ago I was spending my Friday off doing work on the house. (Truth be told, this is how I have been spending a lot of my...

I recently re-discovered books on tape (well, CD) (well, iPod) and have been listening to a few instead of the normal slew of podcasts that ...

I struck up a conversation with a co-worker the other day who I found out had immigrated from Iran when he was 18. He literally escaped the...

Katie and I saw "Live Free or Die Hard" last night and it is the best completely non-redeeming movie I've seen in a while. Thi...

Shortly before a doctor's appointment this morning I stopped by Target to get a welcome-back-home-from-a-boring-business-trip gift for m...

On Friday Katie purchased two new showersheads for the house. Both the previous units, were, uhmm, unsatisfactory. The shower in the maste...

Thanks to a very helpful hardware store sales assistant and the grace of God, I was able to get the dishwasher up and running last night. I...