Writer. Traveler. Tea Drinker.

I’ve been having a lot of fun as an English teacher here in China, but my real job, and first love, is the Moo-Cow Fan Club. For over 5 years I was the editor of Moo-Cow Fan Club Magazine, an award-winning educational magazine for kids. We refused to take ad’s, which is how most magazines make [...]

Just a quick update to tell you all of a pretty cool opportunity I’ve recently read about. It’s called TourBoarding and it is a program that could get you a free place to stay in China for a couple hours of English lessons. What you do is sign up and then post a profile on the [...]

Just wanted to let you all know that I wrote another guest post on Untemplater. I don’t know if I am an ‘official’ contributor yet, but they haven’t told me stop writing so I’ll keep trucking until they do. I’m planning on writing 1-2 posts every month on untemplater. I’ve been a little lazy on [...]

I came across this video thanks to a friends Facebook page. It’s things like this that make me miss home. And if you are not from New Hampshire, or New England in general, I will apologize as you probably won’t get the jokes. This was just too good to pass up and I had to [...]

Okay, this has nothing to do with China, or writing or anything I normally talk about. But I love this guy and I had to share. His name is Christiaan VanVuuren and he caught tuberculous while traveling in South America. He was initially quarantined, but was released because they thought he had improved. Turns out [...]

I’m not such a big fan of carnivals in real life (they’re expensive and kind of depressing) but I sure do like a good blog carnival. And what makes a good blog carnival? Why, one that features me of course! So go check out this great carnival hosted by Travelogged. This is a blog about general travel [...]

To get an idea of how big Chinese New Years you need to roll Christmas and Thanksgiving together. Add a pinch of Valentine’s Day (as they are on the same day this year) and multiply by 1.5 billion people. Then, replace each and every pine needle from the average numbers of Christmas trees all over [...]

Because there is no heat in the building here, despite the near freezing temperatures at times, students have to come up with crafty ways to keep from freezing. One tried and true way is the water bottle. They are popular here (as boiled water is readily available at every dorm and building) and you will [...]

When American’s want to parody what Chinese sounds like we (offensively) say “Ching chong wing wong.” When we want to parody Swedish we say “Smorgish, borgish, upsadasee.” (a la Swedish Chef.) When we want to parody Italian we say “Now dat’s a spicy-a meatball.” (Sorry Italian people, you can blame commercials in the early 90′s [...]

Ryan, Lynn and I went out yesterday to do some errands. I needed my bank card pin number changed (because I forgot it…duh!), Lynn wanted her boots shined, and Ryan wanted to get some decorations for Christmas. We also wanted to buy a Christmas present for the head of our department to present at our [...]