Some people have asked me in earnest. “Have you ever…you know…eaten one?” Some people think they’re the first special snowflake to ever make the joke. “DON’T EAT MY DOG! I see you...
When I was in college, white guys liked to bow at me in bars. I don’t know why the bowings mainly happened in the early 2000s in St. Louis, I have yet to experience so many white guys bowing at me...
I saw a dog get run over in Cambodia. In the back of a tuk tuk (think “motorcycle rickshaw”), my husband worried aloud that he could see a little black puppy trying to cross the busy street up...
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, 19 men and women were stabbed to death, and 25 others wounded, in the Tsukui Yamayuri-En centre for disabled people in Sagamihara near Tokyo, Japan. The...
My mother never forced me to speak Cantonese. Despite spending the bulk of my childhood in Seattle and then Texas, my mother feared for my English. While she continued to speak to me in Cantonese...
For many years China has exploited the billions of dollars worth of mineral and oil deposits in Tibet with complete disregard for the local environment and areas of religious significance. Meanwhile,...
For many westerners living in Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula has long been referred to as the “Dark Side”. Across the harbor from more “expat friendly” neighborhoods on Hong Kong Island —...
It is hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the 1MDB scandal, in which nearly a billion dollars went missing from a Malaysian state-owned development company and, allegedly, turned...
Entire generations of families imprisoned. Food so scarce that starvation is barely a week away. Actions, words, even beliefs monitored by guards in tall watchtowers, fingers itching over the...
When Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, was elected as President of Indonesia in late 2014, the world was enthralled. He was expected to be different — the first President in the nation's...