Sorry I haven’t posted in a while! I’ve been working intensively on the book manuscript lately and that’s absorbed most of my writing time and energy. Here’s a post I’ve had lingering in my file but hadn’t quite finished… As I wrote earlier, S and I missed the big earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3. When… Continue reading On Catching the Aftershocks
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On Missing an Earthquake
At 7:58 am on Wednesday morning, a greater-than-7.0 earthquake hit Taiwan. At 8:02 the first message came through my LINE account (instant-messaging app used in Taiwan) to a group of Fulbrighters: “Hi guys! Just checking in…earthquake just happened. Everyone ok?” In the hour or two afterward, dozens of messages. People checking in, sending photos of shattered… Continue reading On Missing an Earthquake