Category Memoir

How I got started down the road

My university experience was very liberal arts. Not liberal art as in a philosophy major but liberal arts as in no particular thought of future employment. I started out as a math major and added physics when my advisor coincidentally…

A Penny Farthing for your thoughts

I was late to the bicycle. As a little, little kid I was more than happy with my dad’s depression era coaster. I’d roll it up to the top of our block, generate some speed going downhill, jump on and…

Four months in Beijing

Four Months in Beijing. By 1999 I had sixteen years in as a software developer and I was tired. I had been studying Mandarin off and on for a decade and had finagled a modest scholarship to attend the Beijing…