TobyHave you ever written a sonnet?* A sonnet’s beauty and difficulty both lie in the restraints placed around its form. Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, and […]
Month: November 2014
What is Cultural Immersion? I Don’t Think It’s This…
“When I’m in a new place, I don’t want to go to the tourist places; I don’t want to go to museums. I want to […]
Airports
In the last three weeks, I have spent approximately 35 hours in airports. Just in airports. I stayed the night in JFK, had a 10-hour […]
Shanghai Snippets
In Shanghai, everything is new. Or it wants to be new. Or it will be new just as soon as the old is knocked down […]