It must have been super comfortable. The height of manufacturing in North America when you believed it to be fact that you would work at the factory until you retired, at which point your killer pension would kick in and you’d be set until you passed away quietly in your sleep, or your ungrateful child
About vacations
Yes, I know you need one. I need one, too. Desperately. Especially when the staycation that just completed ended up being nothing short of terrible. Sure, others may have worse situations, but this isn’t about them. This is about me and my dissatisfaction. The common conversation this week at the office was about vacation destinations,
One of the things I hated about living in China
I often speak very well of my time in China. By and large, I really liked living there, although it certainly wasn’t Disneyland. One of things that really disturbed me though, was the unwillingness of the locals to help each other in emergency situations. The Sichuan Earthquake aside, Chinese helping Chinese for the sake of
Worth talking about.
I arrived in Progresso, Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula on a late September day in 2002. I’d spent a week there and met some interesting people. As part of an assignment for my TESOL practicum, I had to write something about the experiences I had during this once in a lifetime kind of experience. I was blogging
Expanding my network
There’s no denying that I really want Google+ to work. I love its streamlined design, and the circle concept is awesome. I also can’t deny something that Alex said to me, which is that I want Google+ to succeed because I want Facebook to fail. And really, the way “curse you Zuckerburg” rolls off the
