20 Feb, 2017

My students at Xilin Chinese School sang a Chinese song to celebrate Chinese New Year. 小兔子乖乖 小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开， 快点儿开开，我要进来。 不开不开，我不开， 妈妈没回来，谁来也不开。 小兔子乖乖，把门儿开开， 快点儿开开，我要进来。 就开就开，我就开， 妈妈回来了，我就把门开。

08 Jan, 2017

Here are my New Year's Resolutions for 2017! (in case you were anxiously awaiting them... or even if you weren't)  Ok, so maybe it is already January 8th.  I do truly plan to start them all tomorrow when my daughters go back to school!! Really!          Better late than never. Right? By putting them out as my first blog of 2017, I am hoping to have more motivation to diligently follow them. 1) Go to bed early (before 10:30) and get up early; 2) Exercise at least 30 minutes/day four

27 Dec, 2016

My road to be an author was long, winding, and bumpy, crossing over two continents.           I grew up in a small town of China during the Cultural Revolution. It was a cultural desert. There wasn't a single library in our town.  All Western and Chinese traditional arts and literature were considered virtueless and forbidden. We had no TV, only radio, and occasionally, Russian movies. We had eight national Beijing opera shows, but that was it. Chinese people read Mao's little red books