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

Taipei: Recreation

Dr. Griffith, our medeivalist.

Me.





Tapei: Typhoon approaching



Taipei: NTUT

Campus at 8:30 AM



Berlin: Conference 2004

For my German 101 students:

Berlin am morgens

Cold War Memorial near Checkpoint Charlie. These died trying to cross over. Installation since removed.

Checkpoint Charlie

Alt und Neue Berlin

Unter den Linden

Brandenborg Tor

Reichstag

Where Hegel lectured

Schleiermacher

Fr. Diels

Heinrich Heine

Jewish Museum

Not photographic because you really have to walk through it from start to finish.  At the end of the walk there is a place that looks something like this, except...

Taipei: Alley Cat's

Taipei: Office NTUT

Chinese Name: Wa Hong Yi

outside English Department Office with Snoopy gifts from Lucile and Meggy!

Taipei: Neighborhood

I'm at the top

Down the hill toward work.  100F

down

gaurd house protecting us

immediate neighborhood