Hong Kong

So, somehow it’s been a month and a bit. Jill started teaching. We moved into a real apartment. We bought furnishings, well, we are not finished buying furnishings. The weather hasn’t been as rainy or typhoony lately but there is a typhoon scheduled to affect us on Saturday. I’ve settled in here, I study Chinese and Cantonese everyday or so. I make Jill supper when she doesn’t want to cook.… Read the rest

The other day a tiny-house-sized object appeared in the park we can see from our window. It looked officially sanctioned with a fence around it. We went for an evening walk and discovered a bamboo scaffold set up on the neighborhood soccer court. the scaffold wasn’t for a construction project, it created a stage and a whole court of spaces. On the stage were brightly colored dancers and singers making a lot of racket, no sorry, Chinese opera music, Screechy, trilly, unintelligible, gong-punctuated songs.… Read the rest

I think I was out of my mind for the last 2-3 years. I do know that Jill and I balance each other. Somehow we’ve made it into one of the lives we dreamt of before our life in China abruptly ceased. I have to admit, Jill was the main driver of our fortune. I did keep her centered when she needed it, though.… Read the rest