WE ARE BLESSED PARENTS Both my wife and I believe in “being prepared”. Thus, before any trip, we always go through a list of things to bring (For example, voltage transformer for trips to Europe to operate US electrical appliances there). But on her recent hiking trip to Italy with our son, d ...
32 witty, one-liner jokes about getting old to make you smile 12/18/2022 by Roy Sutton Save Looking for some jokes about getting old, dear reader? Well, today I can offer you 32 of them. Whether you’re young or old, I’m sure you’ll be able ...
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With the major sponsorship of the Committee of 100 (an elite organization of prominent CAs) and the Social Science Department of Columbia University also with helps from the US Census Bureau, the Pew Research Organization, and the office of the White House Initiative of Asian and Pacific ...
I was taking a nap today and a worker from the BrookHaven (our retirement living community) maintenance rang the doorbell. Apparently they do annual check (we have been here one year and 3 weeks) on the proper functioning of all alarm devices, replace the batteries on devices and filters on heatin ...
INTERCONNECT - A New Play about Ch\ina, America, and the Chinese in the US With the Internet as the background connection, this play is a series of vignettes about the last 50 years of history of China and America across 3 generations of the Chinese diaspora in the US climaxing in the disruptive ...
I attended the memorial; service of my colleague Professor Roger Brockett yesterday. Roger accidentally fell from the top of a stairway in his home last Novemeber and was in ICU all this time. Many heroic attempts to revive him was not successful and he left us 3/19/2023. He was 85. The service was ...
When I was growing up in China, every child learn the phrase 坐北朝南 (meaning: south facting) as an important criterion for selecting a site for home to built on and live in. This is particularly relevant since during the first half of the 20th century, China was still relatively poo ...
We have now resided at our retirement community home for a full year. You may ask what it is like to live here on a day-to-day basis. Well, here is a description of a typical day 1. First of all, since your are retired weekdays and weekend days are pretty much the same. You o ...