My grandfather (ah gong, or 外公, but we call him gong gong), driven by winds of Communist change, arrived in Taiwan in the 1940s. He was a Fuzhou businessman, 26 at the time. He was a businessman, relatively wealthy and educated, and fled from the incoming Communists. He met my grandmother (ah ma, or 外媽 […]
I’ve been running for the past week or so, despite my grandma’s protests (“you’ll catch a cold”). It used to be easier with the jet lag, when I’d get up at 5am and stare at the wall and catch myself wondering where exactly I was. It’s been generally drizzly here for the past week or so, […]
Annie asked me this morning in the LAX terminal if I was looking forward to doing anything once we arrived in Taipei. I froze because I really hadn’t thought about it. The only thing I had thought about was what it would be like to see yie yie (my grandpa on my dad’s side), now […]
4 cities, 2 continents, we made it happen for like 30 seconds:
I’m here in San Diego with my Mom and sisters, just hanging out. I know I lose man-points for saying this, but I’ve really missed them. Remember flying kites in the backyard? Isn’t Dad such a character? Remember that cherry tree in the backyard? And the swing we put on it? We miss your cooking […]
