Taipei: Practicing Calligraphy



Taipei: Film

for the non-anglophone western lit and culture class, a film by Raul Ruiz of Chile

Taipei: Subway Station



Taipei: Not Sleeping

Could not sleep so I watched this old favorite, the first thing I taught when I came here to Taipei in a course called 'Melodrama in Literature and Film'.  Can you guess the film?  The actress is perhaps my favorite Hollywood star.

Taipei: Teaching

Next week's Intermediate Writing lesson



and so on

Taipei: Reading

The "new thinking" of Franz Rosenzweig which influenced Emmanuel Levinas and others including Leo Strauss who influenced Harvey Mansfield, Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, and Irving Krystol and through them and others (supposedly) the Bush-Cheney White House's Iraq War strategy and the Tea Party of today

Taipei: Backyard Dinner



Picnic

with Christina's family and neighbors

delicious!

Christina herself

her mother and the unhappy Chi Chi (her niece) (not smiling)

later on...birthday cake for BaBa

and later still

and finally, BaBa's (and my!) favorite beverage: Kinmen liquor