Snapshots from my summer, random and rich: I sit in the quiet of the nursing home at night. Small sounds are large. A fan hums. The refrigerator. The rustle of the nurse shuffling papers. An alarm sounds loud, and I leap to answer it, cocking my ears to the right and to the left as […]
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Our trip ended in Canton, known for its duck and delicious teas and dim sum. Our Chinese friends, Liang and Sami, live here, in the city of Guangzhou. Our second to last day in China, they took us to Sami’s hometown: a small town in the countryside of Canton whose name I can’t remember. I
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Xiapu is a county known for its mud flats… …and its sea food. Soon after we arrived at our inn on the edge of the city, we walked down to the harbor, where the tide was just coming in. We hailed a captain and asked for a ride. He took us with a few other
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I don’t know exactly what it was that made me fall in love with Wuyuan County, but I think it was the homey, old world atmosphere; the clear air, unpolluted by city smog; the friendly people. We arrived in the city of Wuyuan after dark and, following our friend Liang’s advice, sought out a hostel.
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My little brother Benny got married this weekend, that’s what. He and his new wife Tricia married in Nebraska, where she grew up, but—lucky us—they plan to live right here in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Benny will continue to work at Conrath Quality Meats, the meat processing plant my three brothers own together. Trish will continue to
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