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Archive for June, 2011


Living Off and On the Grid

June 30th, 2011

Last week I was one of 450,000 Chicago area residents who experienced an electrical power outage when a violent storm swept through the area. City outages do have distinct advantages over rural outages. You still have water and natural gas, so toilets flush and stoves function, but all the electronics that are part of daily [...]


Goodbye Concierge; Hello Reality

June 10th, 2011

If you travel by air, you have probably learned that a) delays happen and b) those with status in the airline hierarchy get priority. As an expat living in China, needless to say, I logged substantial hours and miles on planes. As appropriate to any activity to which time and effort are devoted, I paid [...]