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Earlier this evening I caught a story on the TV news about Pres. Chen's visit to Marjorie Bly, a retired American nurse who is in a Peng...

Last night we went to "Tea Work" on Wenxin Road for dinner. Walking into the restaurant, we spotted a cute little baby (maybe a ye...

From BBC News : Online reference site Wikipedia blames US Congress staff for partisan changes to a number of political biographies. Computer...

A few months ago I noted an article and an editorial in the Taiwan News regarding the possibilities for deliberative democracy in Taiwan. ...

When we were back home over the CNY holidays, I came across a few pics of Mei-mei from about 11 years ago. Thought I'd share a couple of...

The former native Chinese speaker and I went to Bookman Books (書林) downtown this afternoon so she could look for a book for her monsters. I ...

Courtesy of the Simpsomaker --or is it the "Simpomaker"? (Note: I had to do a "PrtSc" to get a copy of the image--which ...

Got this (forwarded) from ERG: Cna yuo raed tihs? i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweo...

Back in 1997, I wrote about the first Chinese New Year that I spent with my then-future in-laws, but the only version left of that story is ...

In response to this :* 'Are you guilty?' said Winston. 'Of course I'm guilty!' cried Parsons with a servile glance at th...

At the top of my list of articles to read: Lillis, Theresa, and Mary Jane Curry. "Professional Academic Writing by Multilingual Scholar...

A few items: The writing workshop with Charles Bazerman on Dec. 3 went really well. There were over 100 people attending. Dr. Bazerman...

In this episode of the continuing story of the slow demise of the former native speaker's kitchen, we see the former native Chinese spea...

ESWN has helpfully translated an article from MediaChina.net on the prevalence of plagiarism in news organizations in China.

(Well, actually I grew up in Baltimore County. But it was close to the city! Anyway...) This article in the New York Times caught my attent...

Earlier I mentioned that my department is hosting a workshop on writing instruction on December 3. I'm on a panel about text-type in t...

The former native speaker just found out that his brother, a.k.a. " the former blogger " (heh... he's gonna kill me for that) ...

Friday was the former native Chinese speaker's birthday (she heard that Michael Turton's wife was born on Nov. 11 and just wanted t...

The Tunghai FLLD will be hosting a workshop entitled "Situating Writing Instruction in an EFL Context: A Conversation with Charles Baze...