Photos are from Feng: 下午去了歙县的昌溪古村.一进村就捡到这座姚氏节孝坊, kind of paifang.这村口有2棵2千年的樟树也是老人想子女等孩子的地方.革命语录还保留着. Built during the reign of Guangxu (1875-1908) by the wealthy merchant Wu Xixu 吴锡叙, Jiuzi Land 九子巷…
truth is stranger than fiction
By Jon Krakauer on Chris McCandless (1968-92), an Emory University graduate who ventured into the wild and died in Stampede Trail, Alaska. He wrote for school’s…
Krakauer is an American writer and mountain climber. I first noticed him was reading his book Into Thin Air, on the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest…
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, is one of Jon Krakauer‘s books, published in 2015, with 1,633 ratings on Amazon at this…
Waking up to flowers and sweet wishes from my family, and reading friends’ postings about their Mother’s Day experiences (treatments and gifts …) but as…
A school boy said good bye to his mother on Mother’s Day, then a couple of hours later, leapt to his death in school. School…
China or Chinese view Nobel Prize differently: they coveted it so much, they bragged about whom he or she had nominated (really? “The names of…
An Asian-hate issue in school? A freidn wrote: 昨晚参加了当地学区委员会的例会,作为家长我好好的听了学区委员们的口水会.如火如荼的仇恨亚裔事件频发的当下,不小心我们这样一个貌似山高水长春暖花开的地方也爆了个新闻.本来这样的例会应该就发生在中学里的仇恨事件展开说明.可好,那个坐在主席台中间的头直接封口所有的家长发言人不许谈论,如果涉及这个事件的议题直接掐麦赶人. 大概有十多分钟每一位学区委员发表了“发自肺腑”吹捧学监的肉麻致词.差点晚饭没吐出来. 我只问了一个简单的问题:该学区亚裔美国人学生占比多少,没有一位学区委员能正面回答. 那个学监拿着上百万的工资混了个疫情无所作为,学生生源族裔占比无知无畏,一个仇恨事件的发生想通过三句话在一篇洋洋洒洒的通讯中轻描淡写一带而过,你骗谁. Newsday: Syosset Central School District Superintendent Thomas Rogers issued a statement at…