Travel Theme: One Color
Each week Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack? invites bloggers to contemplate and post on a specific theme. This week’s theme is One Color, i.e. monochromatic. Some art teacher engraved the notion in my...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Intricate
Train, Japan 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Intricate
Carved Ivory, Suzhou Museum Carved Ivory, Suzhou Museum Carved Ivory, Suzhou Museum 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of...
View ArticleTravel Theme: Subtle
Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack challenges photobloggers with a theme this week. This week she’s asked, “Can you find a photo that feels understated, suggestive, subtle in its use of color?” If you would...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Broken
In Zhujiayu Red Door Restaurant I find this quite disturbing. At Baoxing Temple, Wencheng 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: On the Way
On the way to the Silk Market On the way to Prince Gong’s Mansion On the way to Tiananmen Square 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your...
View ArticleSepia Saturday
This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt serves to inspire bloggers to find photos of baking. What a great subject! I found several on Flickr Commons. If you want to see other blogger’s offerings, click...
View ArticleConsidering a Job?
Dear EFL Professional, If you’re wondering whether to take a job with Yucui “Education” Consultancy, Xiang Jiang High School, or Korea National University of Education, contact me. I can give you the...
View ArticleMade for Each Other
With Carole Lombard and Jimmy Stewart, Made for Each other has been described as the “serious side of the screwball comedy.” I saw it on YouTube for the MOOC I’m taking on Marriage and Movies. We’re...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Vivid
Kyoto, Japan Jinan, China Beijing, China 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new...
View ArticleSepia Saturday
Tunnels are perfect devices for storytelling, seemingly neutral spaces that can lead someone from one world to another. They can also look rather cool and evoke mystery and adventure. The ones I’ve...
View ArticleAcademic Accreditation: Chinese Style
This coming week our university is due for a visit from the Ministry of Education. A few weeks back at a meeting we were told we would have to submit several documents for the accreditation, but we’d...
View ArticleSepia Saturday
This weeks’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a typewriter. As much as I love computers, there’s something romantic about old typewriters. While I wouldn’t buy one or in most cases prefer to use one, if I...
View ArticlePoem of the Week
To My Father’s Business by Kenneth Koch Leo bends over his desk Gazing at a memorandum While Stuart stands beside him With a smile, saying, “Leo, the order for those desks Came in today From Youngstown...
View ArticleStar Talk
I just discovered this National Geographic program, Star Talk. It’s a weekly late night talk show with scientists as guests. The host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a comedian and a scientist on to talk...
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The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Symbol
Symbolizing revolution in China Symbolizing Brazil What do angels symbolize for you? A symbol from Buddhism 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on...
View ArticleUrumqi Security
I was aware of the unrest and problems in Xinjiang before I went to Urumqi, but I wasn’t prepared for all the check points and security measures that are part of daily life in Xinjiang. Hong Shan Park...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Urbana, IL 1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the...
View ArticleXinjiang Provincial Museum
If you’re in Urumqi, the Xinjiang Provincial Museum is a must see. It’s not very large, but it gives you a portion of the history of the region. It’s located behind a street with lots of high fashion,...
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