2011 “Cha Bu Duo” Fun Run!

Last Saturday, 17 September, was the successfully fun second annual “Cha Bu Duo” 5km, 10km Fun Run! It is Shenyang’s premier running event -  it is the only running event in the city! For Mandarin-challenged readers, cha bu duo is Chinese for “more or less”, or “close enough”. Thirty participants ran a 5km (new this [...]

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Leaving China

Early Wednesday morning I’ll fly out of China. In the initial stages of confirming the move it just felt like I was going on another big trip. But now as I sit among the boxes, suitcases, and the remnants of my stuff, its quite clear that I am actually leaving. It is strange, though, how [...]

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Ten Things I Like About China

A while ago, when I was winging about China-this and China-that, I was challenged by a friend (who does not live here) to come up with some things that I do like about living China. There are actually many positive aspects to living here and I thought you’d like to know a few of them. [...]

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Why are you moving to Thailand?

I’m overdue to answer this question well. As the title of this blog suggests, I do consider this to be a format in which to journey with you, and you with me. Life seems to be going so fast for me this year, but I do need to take some time to help you catch [...]

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Coast to Coast!

The first 90 days of 2011 found me traveling on 47  of them. Traveling in SE Asia – particularly China – ain’t no picnic, in the best conditions. I try to fit in core work whenever I have a chance on a hard tile floor.  The worst is losing  control over my schedule, as well [...]

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Cambodia Thailand 2011

I’ve just returned back to China and I will attempt here to eek out a blog post that will summarize the trip. Although several blog posts would be better to go through everything there is to tell, I have this tension about not exactly being a professional blogger. The first part of the trip was [...]

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Christmas cookie time again!

I guess it is becoming a sort of tradition for me to host a Christmas cookie decorating party for my Chinese friends, as well as a couple of foreigners. It is a distinctly Western activity in which they love to participate and they are really good at it! I think in a way it feels [...]

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Dalian Marathon

On 26 April I ran the 23rd International Dalian Marathon.  Although my  time (3:54:00) wasn’t my best, it wasn’t my worst either. My goal wasn’t to get a PR, just run a strong and consistent race; the race that I felt I had in me. This was a race to help motivate my butt out [...]

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Marathon Time!

Some updates on my running in Shenyang since I first blogged about it. I’ve had a couple months to get to know the city, and running is a big part of that. I scour the city map and look for green patches and figure out how to run there. I’ve found a street that runs [...]

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Firecracker! March 09

I’m back and blogging! In February, I went to Thailand to attend the CMDA-CME conference. It is designed to give physicians and nurses (particularly from N. Am.) help in meeting continuing medical education needs for maintenance of licensure and it occurs every year, alternating between Asia and Africa. Although the content is world class, it [...]

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