Centered on Taiwan: Summer 2023
That’s a nice looking cover! Lots of photographs inside, too!
That’s a nice looking cover! Lots of photographs inside, too!
When we lived in Tienmou many years ago, our neighbours upstairs were broken into just before Chinese New Year. Turns out they had stashed a lot of cash at home and then gone out. They didn’t have any kind of home alarm, there was no security in the building, and it was mid-afternoon. I wasn’t…
My friend says I look ‘slim’ these days. I guess I do. I certainly feel more confident, more energetic and I enjoy clothes more than I ever did before, even if I no longer follow exact gender norms. I certainly appreciate the compliments I get on how I look. I never thought how important they…
Chiang Kai Shek’s religiosity is probably one of the reasons that Christianity took off here. It surprises many that he was in fact christian in his beliefs (at least later in life). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17535650902900364 CKS was in fact a methodist. But the deaths attributed to him number in the millions: https://www.cbgr1971.org/index.php/genocide/what-is-genocide/2-r-j-rummel-on-genocide Of course, his crimes against…
Yes. I made one. I just couldn’t get it right. Then it started having its own ‘issues’… like not updating the avatar after editing. So… too much trouble.
I can’t agree more with this … and have been thinking this for some time. Facebook and Google are overpersonalizing results to the point that we’re living in the bubble of the algorythms.