hi cousin edward!

Because I know you're reading, and because you had to go back to work at one o'clock this morning.

Did you know you can't buy guns in Taiwan?

Did you know that when you pronounce "sport", the "p" sounds more like a "b"? But not in "wasp". The trials of my cousins who are trying to learn English.

Grandma got a perm, and she is beautiful.

I got to ride motorbikes both last night and tonight, zipping through the streets of Chiayi and Kaoshiung, the warm wind full in my face. It has always been one of my favorite sensory memories of Taiwan. I was born in the year of the dog, and sometimes, it really does fit.

Eating sugarcane "off the stick" (although there is no stick, technically) brings back memories of my childhood in sunny South Florida. My dad used to say it was nature's dental floss. You chew all the moisture out, and then spit the fibers back out. It's a messy, sticky process, but so yummy!