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The Safest Place
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it...
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Saturday Storytime: Deborah & Jael
Time for a story about a badass woman who took matters into her own hands. Literally!
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What Mary Knew
Prior to 2020 I had never, ever studied the life of Mary. She’s in the crèche I pull out every Christmas, but kind of boring (it’s the ritually unclean shepherds having their minds blown by the psychedelic light show in the sky which always interested me). I’m not Catholic so Mary has never really held any special power or interest for me, especially since she’s always up on a pedestal looking all pure and pious and the exact opposite of anything I want to be. But honestly this year set me on a bizarre journey to study the very Jewish Jesus in the Christian Bible and all the interactions he…
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Travel While Not Traveling
My passport is collecting dust on the shelf above my desk, which makes me think I should be focusing a little more on basic household chores during this extended time at home! But it also fills me with sadness when I count how long it’s been since our last trip, and a little worry about how long it might be before it’s safe for anyone to travel once again. In the last couple of years I got on a plane every other month, sometimes monthly. My Mother’s health was declining so I’d make the trek from Hong Kong to the middle of America to help my Dad out every couple…
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Tales from the Loop
Depending on where in the world you are, you might be sliding into the point in self-isolation where boredom and restlessness are creating more angst than the thought of catching the Coronavirus. You can’t sit still, you can’t focus, but there’s nothing to do. Or else all you want to do is sit still but there’s way too much to do. Can I make a soothing recommendation? First of all, you’re going to need an Amazon Prime account, if you don’t already have one. And if you don’t, they offer a free 30 day trial which you can grab by clicking here. They have a wide variety of original content…
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Dirty Laundry
What can you actually control when everything feels out of control? The laundry. Maybe.
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A Healthy Dose of Art
Here in Hong Kong, our family has been practicing social distancing including working from home, attending school online, and saying no to almost everything fun or interesting since mid-January. As in eleven weeks of frantic tedium and anxious boredom. Several other places around the world are just now completing their first week of doing the same and believe me, I feel the weight of it all right through my screen. I’m working on writing my personal story and first-hand experience with life in lock down due to the Coronavirus. It’s been perhaps the most strangely difficult thing I’ve had to write, and it’s taking forever. Trying to strike a balance…
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Happy New Year!
Welcome Friends! 2020 is here and bringing a much needed fresh start for all of us. So many things happened in 2019 that we’d love to sweep under the carpet and forget, but all that does is delay dealing with it and creates a lumpy floor… We took our Christmas card photo all the way back in October this year, but the cards themselves didn’t actually go out until two weeks before Christmas. We’re almost done with the first week of January, and friends and family are still receiving their cards! It’s crazy to think that both of my children are not just taller than me, but both have achieved…
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle!
Hong Kong Disneyland’s five year expansion program continues with the latest attraction, a target shooting ride called Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! This attraction replaced the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, which closed about a year ago. The Nano Battle attraction fits in nicely with Tomorrowland’s Iron Man Experience and Iron Man Showcase. During the recent Media and Fan Event, Paul Rudd – the Ant-Man himself, came to Hong Kong to open the attraction for the press and dedicated fans. I was lucky enough to head over to the Park for most of the day and managed to get a pretty bad sunburn (the humidity melted my sunscreen right off…
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Survival Tips For International Flights
Living in Hong Kong means traveling between 14 and 40 hours, door-to-door to see my family in America. Yes, they say life is supposed to be more about the journey than the destination, but that’s a lot of journeying in a cramped metal tube, filled with germs and strangers and crying babies and lackluster food! Spending a lot of time in the air isn’t something which gets easier with practice for me. But I’ve found a few things to make it a bit more comfortable. When you look up survival tips for long haul flights, it’s generally advice for how to survive 10+ hours with a baby or toddler. My…
