Unmerited Favor

We were enjoying a long Holiday weekend in Beijing, China when I got a phone call from my boss, telling me I had been promoted! I knew the promotion list was supposed to come out, but I didn’t expect to be on it. It wasn’t something we particularly needed and it won’t have a huge […]

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Another Day

Thursday was the first day of China’s “National Day” holiday. I wasn’t interested in celebrating the communist takeover of this country, so for me it was just another day off from work. The air pollution had been “cleaned up” either by the wind or by government intervention and it was a bright sunny day in

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Lesser Gods

A co-worker showed me a picture of a famous guitarist and declared emphatically “This is god!” I replied, “You don’t have very high standards for your gods.” I knew what he meant by his statement, but I don’t like people casually calling someone “god.” This man was idolizing the musician for his talents, and I

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A Real Life

I was working on one of my stories when I heard Cindy Morgan singing about a “real life” and it reminded me of one of my managers at work who mentioned that she goes to bed early “maybe because I don’t have a life.” I’m sure that healthy, attractive, and successful lady does have “a

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