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A quick post to mention that I received a reply from the Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs, that indicated that they have...

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...

I came across this transcript of an interview with Kam Louie . It's 99 pages long (!), so I haven't finished it yet, but it's qu...

My six-year-old likes to talk about dinosaurs. Any conversation you try to have with him always ends up turning to dinosaurs. The other nigh...

  Recorded from my kitchen window Sunday, Feb. 7

I don't have time these days to read or write anything not related to teaching, but I can still buy books! My latest purchase is an Engl...

This is a topic that I know absolutely nothing about, so I'm not sure why this article, " Sheanderthal ," was pushed to me. (M...

In last semester's Travel Writing class, I asked students to write about a "souvenir" that they had acquired (or hoped to acqu...

A Twitter posting from Ketagalan Media ( why oh why  am I still looking at Twitter postings?) reminded me that I started this blog almost 1...

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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...

Turned in my grades last night, wrote up some final emails, filled out a couple of surveys that were sitting in my inbox, and now have until...

Number six in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Hartnett, S. J., Dodge, P. S.-W....

 We had a visitor on Saturday...

I'm listening to a podcast of  an interview with Lev Nachman, a PhD candidate in political science at UC Irvine, and it's reminding...

Number five in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Yueh, H.-i. S. (2020). Beyond C...

I'm drowning in work right now, plus having to monitor my son's remote schooling. (Though I have to admit watching his teacher at wo...

I see that Isabelle Cheng (author of the article I summarized here ) has written an article for Taiwan Insight  about her research about mig...

Just noticed my resolutions from last year --that seems like it was a century ago. Not sure I achieved any of the goals I had set for last y...

Number four in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Cheng, I. (2020). We want produ...