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
Tag: environment
Talking trash in Taipei
Since we arrived in Taipei, I have spent a lot of time pondering trash. At nearly every apartment I viewed in Taipei (thanks to the misadventures I chronicled in this earlier post and this one, I saw something like twelve altogether), the landlord described in detail the building’s system for garbage disposal. Often they actually walked me to… Continue reading Talking trash in Taipei