The year was 1990. We’d moved to Taiwan in February. Happened to arrive on one of the noisiest and brightest of holiday nights – Lantern…
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It’s a tantalizing dream, this idea that peace might someday break out all over the globe. More than any other time of the year, it…
Tomorrow in Greenwich they’ll be partying like it’s 1774. No, not the Greenwich Village of New York City or the English one that divides east…
Christmas never passes without Doris Walker coming to mind – my violin teacher, that is. For years, Doris was as much Christmas as decorated evergreens…
Something about this time of year contrasts so deeply our hopes and fears. Joy and sorrow make for odd bedfellows around the Christmas tree. For…