Monthly Archives: January 2013

[This is a follow-up to Passport Photos Part I] Getting a good passport photo is a lot harder than you think.

You may not know this, but the U.S. government (and quite a few other governments around the world) don’t consider Taiwan a real country.  The U.S. doesn’t have a real embassy here.  Instead, we have a fake embassy that we call the American Institute in Taiwan.  As a result, diplomats (or I should say “fakeContinue reading “Passport Photos”

I know I like to brag a lot about how safe Taiwan is.  But this week, in broad daylight, a crazy man stabbed a parent as she was walking her children in front of the Taipei Japanese School.  The Japanese school happens to be directly across the street from the American school my kids attend.Continue reading “Evil Everywhere”

My mother recently gave me a good idea.  She suggested that we do a monthly family goal; something that the family can work on together for a month at a time.  The goal can be anything.  Something spiritual like saying a prayer together at night as a family, something practical like making sure the lightsContinue reading “Monthly Family Goal”