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I'm going to have to sit with this for a bit to work out my thoughts about what's being suggested here:   The suggestion to create a...

The spring semester is over here--and just in time, as a hay fever-driven lethargy has overtaken me, making it hard for me to concentrate on...

This evening, my wife and I were playing with ChatGPT to see how it translates from Japanese and Chinese. I remembered that I had once trans...

In my first-year writing for multilingual students class today, we were talking about Jhumpa Lahiri's 2015 article, " Teach Yoursel...

The fall semester is going to start soon, so I'm busy preparing my three classes (two sections of first-year writing for multilingual st...

This has been the next-to-last week of class, so I've been reading and commenting on paper drafts, conferencing with students, and doing...

Since yesterday, there's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about one particular "idiom" ( chengyu ) in Xi Jinping's spee...

I'm sure my dear reader is dying to know which book I'm going to read now that I've finished A Son of Taiwan . I'm still wor...

OK, I'm going way out of my own comfort zone when it comes to this topic, but I'm going to toss out an idea anyway. I heard about th...

It's the end of 2020, but I can't say I have a lot of hope for 2021. Despite having some vaccines, COVID-19 is still raging--particu...

Marco Werman from PRI's radio program The World  interviewed Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang today about her role and, more g...

Watching the news. Even though Taiwan is an island, I feel more trapped in the US than I ever felt when I lived there. Probably not an ori...

I found out about this webinar today about two hours after it ended, along with this " Advocacy Call to Challenge Institutionalized Xe...

I've had two Twitter accounts in the past that I used for a while and then deleted; I've had one account that I never finished setti...

I wonder what bloggers do (or are supposed to do) when the links from old posts get broken. I mentioned a couple of posts from seven years a...

Remember the old Leonard Nimoy-hosted In Search of. ..  shows? (The link will take you to one on astrology--just in time for the upcoming fu...

My wife told me this afternoon that our upstairs felt like a 三溫暖 ( sān wēnnuǎn ; sauna), and that got me thinking about the origins of this ...

This is the term I came up with this morning to describe how I lurch from one anger-inducing news story to another about the intersection of...

Yesterday a big storm came through, with heavy rain and strong winds that tossed branches around the yard and even cut out our power for abo...

I started this blog 16 years ago tonight with the rather bland line, " We live in interesting times in Taiwan ." Sixteen years a...