Soon after we arrived in Beijing, our friends took us to see the famous Great Wall of China. The Great Wall is an impressive structure, not that it is so tall, but that it is built along the top of mountain ridges and is 5000 miles long. Built by manual labor, it was a monumental […]
Last week the pollution was really bad in Beijing. It climbed to over 400 AQI, and it looked like a thick fog had settled over the city. From our apartment I could only see a few buildings, with nothing in sight beyond that. If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought that was all
Some people take that statement to mean what I am against, while others see it as a sign of intolerance and hatred. There are too many cases where these are accurate, or believed for good reason. It is heartbreaking to see adversaries choose sides and one or both call themselves Christian. There are circumstances where
We call South Texas home and for many years we owned a house near La Vernia. Our suburban home was located on 1.79 rough acres. The weather in that area is hot and dry and trying to make a nice yard presented a number of challenges. Our yard had cactus, briers, gopher mounds and an
Living in Beijing we keep a wary eye on the Air Quality Index (AQI), to see if it is safe to go outside without a protective mask. Yesterday when I looked the AQI was 170 (Unhealthy), which is kind of normal here. While I wasn’t watching the AQI soared to over 400 (Hazardous). After seeing
