There is a Goddess of America, and her name is Columbia. This is not a witty line portraying a concept. I am not using an analogy to liken the capital to a Divine Mother Figure. I am simply stating facts: There is a Goddess of America, and her name is Columbia.
Continue reading this entry ...
If you have been following this series for the last year or so, you would know that I demonstrated how naturally occurring radio signals can be reconstructed by computer to betray thoughts, feelings, sight and sound and how such information can be communicated back to the body.
Continue reading this entry ...
The first "red flag" upon reading of the plane crash was why someone so involved in renewable energy would fly his own aircraft to a holiday destination.
Continue reading this entry ...
Valentine's Day was clearly a pagan conspiracy to get all the fertile young people hopping into bed and bopping about on the same night.
Continue reading this entry ...
WE had a big garden back in Vermont and a country house heated by a wood stove. I would dry herbs from the kitchen ceiling and toast crumbs while cooking down sauces or simmering pot roasts and porridges atop the household kiln throughout the day.
Continue reading this entry ...
WHAT is the most auspicious day to move in this month and does it really matter?
Continue reading this entry ...
Please follow explicitly these instructions on what you are supposed to do in a twinkling, how long it takes to get the skin tight, what to do with your hand, where to place your gum and what to wipe up with afterward, and finally a caution about deposits that could lead to child …
Continue reading this entry ...
THINGS are not always what you would expect.
Continue reading this entry ...
NEW Year's resolutions are as easy or hard to keep as carving a phoenix.
Continue reading this entry ...
THREE concepts that are rather difficult for westerners to grasp are: 1. That thievery is your fault, not the thieves'. 2. Being happy that you were just robbed. 3. Doing nothing – except staring – when someone else is in trouble.
Continue reading this entry ...
HE died alone and childless at home in Stockholm, the picture of the woman he loved, but left behind for his many trips to Asia, at his bedside. I first saw him in 1965 as I drove home from night classes.
Continue reading this entry ...
THE quickest way to learn some Chinese words is by association. For instance, when most men arrive in China for the first time, they want to be able to order beer. But the word "pijiu" is difficult for them to remember.
Continue reading this entry ...
LAST week it made perfect sense to see Snow White bidding Santa Claus farewell.
Continue reading this entry ...
A Chinese friend says not to be so picky about food. But as a kid, I swore to eat only what I wanted as an adult. Didn't know then what China would be serving up.
Continue reading this entry ...
CONFUCIUS considered that heaven had a will and could be prayed to. I tested this theory at the college this past week and, sure enough, the Chinese people I tried to choke from behind exclaimed, "Wo de tian!" – My heaven!
Continue reading this entry ...
SANTA Claus is at home, busily manufacturing gifts in his Guangdong workshop where I live in China.
Continue reading this entry ...
ONE of the classic stories in Chinese culture is about the never-ending conflict between a man's wife and his mother-in-law. As the saying goes, two women under the roof means no peace in the house.
Continue reading this entry ...
"WHO are you?" new Chinese English teachers were asked at a roundtable for better learning. The answers went like this: "I'm Wang Li. I live in China. I'm an English teacher." "But," the facilitator insisted, "Who are you?"
Continue reading this entry ...
THE waves wheel in among the boulders, then whisper out. Beneath the bloody lock of hair pasted to her forehead Mei Din ponders her fate. The greedy water grasps for her feet. She is too weak to resist.
Continue reading this entry ...
ONE of the biggest mysteries in every city I've been to in China has been that single pair of red panties hanging in the window or on the balcony. In some homes they seem to be permanent fixtures.
Continue reading this entry ...
UNTIL my recent experiences, I would have had little good to say about Chinese hospitals. However, now I have done a complete about face, at least regarding my treatment by doctors, nurses and other health-care personnel in today's Zhuhai.
Continue reading this entry ...
IN 1949, my granduncle, the controversial Swedish explorer of Asia Sven Anders Hedin, said, "Mao is the best thing that has happened to China in a thousand years."
Continue reading this entry ...
CHINESE factories have an image in the West of being sweatshops. While that might have been true ten years ago, almost all the workers I have seen and talked to lately are content.
Continue reading this entry ...
AFTER discussing an article that mentioned using a handkerchief in lieu of bathroom tissue, a young woman asked: You didn't put it back in your pocket, did you? See looked at me as if expecting to hear, Of course, I did!
Continue reading this entry ...
A LITTLE bit of language is a dangerous thing.
Continue reading this entry ...
The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of the yuan compared to the dollar.
Qu Yi and her son Dabao admire a Christmas installation outside a mall in downtown Beijing.
Etched with ancient Thamudic graffiti, these monuments to a long extinct culture have maintained their lonely vigil for six millennia.
Religious practice among Chinese Communist Party members is increasing and threatens its unity and national leadership, a top party official said in remarks reported Monday.
I've been accused of hating religion and more specifically Christianity. Hopefully, this article will help dispel such notions.
This superb floral delivery service offers low prices on a wide selection of fresh flowers, bouquets and plants in China.
http://www.flowersofchina.com
Hey Uncle John! What is Nicole's email address (and yours too)? Send me an email: kirstinlea@suddenlink.net
Love you and miss you!!
i love you and miss you dad.!!!!!@#$%^&*(
Hi dad, i talk to uncle pete quite often, and tobie all the time. anyway, i love reading your articles. i sent nadine, grammy flowers for her birthday, and she called me back and was thrilled. judi and steve recently moved back t o vermont in the house on thibout pkwy. i had alot of great memories their. i had alot more in milton and the frog pond though. anyway your grandson, kyle is walking now.... ahhhhh, i wish that you could see him? i have the video sky cam, do you? dad, he is so beautiful, and sometimes i say to jim, my husband... he does not look like you or me or anyone, and then i say he looks just like my dad...he does have slanted eyes hee hee hee !!!!!!!
John Hedin is a member of the following groups:
Latest Comments
Flat tax renews fight on 'trickle-down economics'
Beijing to track citizens with their cell phones
Beijing to track citizens with their cell phones
China's Wen seeks to assure public about inflation
How and why Christians will cause the demise of Christmas.
Japan to Shift Its Military Toward Threats From China
Women's brains grow after giving birth