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Weekly Wanderings: January 5, 2025
Two weeks without recommendations meant I saved up a bumper crop for today—I hope everyone can find a story or two in the links below to read with their coffee on a cold winter Sunday. Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories The recent shift in exile rhetoric suggests a realization by the…
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Niagara Falls from (Almost) Every Angle
Eight years after moving to Southeast Michigan, I finally made the four-hour drive to Niagara Falls, Ontario last June. During our five days there, my brother and I saw the falls from virtually every vantage point available on the Canadian side. We started off on our first morning there by walking down Clifton Hill to…
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Out With the Old, In With the New
Happy New Year! I decided to ring in 2025 by signing up for a New Year’s 5K duo: Out With the Old (December 31) and In With the New (January 1). The course loops around Bloomer Park in Rochester, MI; the first day’s race goes counter-clockwise, the next one clockwise. While it was cold both…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 29, 2024
These past few weeks have been filled with year-end “best of” lists and assessments of 2024. I thought about putting together that kind of post for today, then decided … eh, I’d rather not. As this year draws to a close, I’ll simply say: I appreciate everyone who reads, shares, and comments on my work,…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 22, 2024
In lieu of musings and reading recommendations, this week I’m sharing photos from an August 2021 visit I made to the house from A Christmas Story in Cleveland, Ohio. Open for tours (you can also stay the night!), the house is dressed for Christmas year-round and features all the iconic props from the movie—including, of…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 15, 2024
Syria, Korea, China, pandas, pizza, museums, hockey, Rancho Gordo beans—this reading round-up is jam-packed and truly has something for just about everyone. It’s also my final reading round-up of 2024, as I’m going to publish some holiday-themed posts next week and the following. Thanks for joining me this week! Recommendations Events in Syria Rania Abouzeid,…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 8, 2024
On the morning of Tuesday, December 3, I got up early and started writing right away. I was working on a book review and had suddenly hit the zone where words were flowing, so my focus was unusually unshakeable. At 9:00, I reluctantly left that document and switched to Zoom, where I spent the next…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 1, 2024
December! Well, Decem-brrrr here in Michigan … it was 19 degrees outside and snowing lightly when I woke up this morning. In addition to the links below, I have a new piece just up at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The creation of character input methods, and how thinking about them has changed our…
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Weekly Wanderings: November 24, 2024
Thanks for joining me this week. Recent Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories Kelly Ho, “Benny Tai, Joshua Wong among 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists jailed up to 10 years in landmark national security case” Joyce Jiang and James Legge, “Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks” Dalia Parete, “For Mang…
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Weekly Wanderings: November 17, 2024
@mauracunningham (2010-2024) I deactivated my Twitter account this morning. It finally felt like time: I hadn’t posted there in months, and the post-election surge in Bluesky users has created a critical mass of other historians, writers, China folks, Ann Arborites, and Phillies/Flyers fans—the people I most want to connect with. Time to officially move on.…
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