Category: blog post

I personally, feel the effects of Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act. In 2008, I was diagnosed with endometriosis and was denied coverage by my insurance company even though I purchased insurance before I was diagnosed. Thankfully, the hospital I used for my $12,000 operation had a privately funded program to help low-income families pay their medical Read More

Xinhua News Network, the offical news outlet for China’s government, announced late last night that one offical has been fired for his role in the forced abortion of Feng Jianmei’s 7-month old fetus. However, the article is contradictory in its explanation as to what lead up to that horrible event. The article states that “there Read More

Then you should read this article posted over at Beijing Cream. Apparently, for the crime of speaking out about what she endured, Feng Jianmei and her husband have been labeled traitors and have been subject of attacks by their own neighbors. Absolutely tragic and disgusting.

Last month, when my friend Jasmine’s apartment was broken into while she was home sleeping, she became a mental wreck. She was terrified and unable to sleep. Even when she left town to stay in the safety of a friend’s house, she was still unable to sleep. I asked her if she needed some sleeping Read More

We have made it our Thursday morning routine to go to Bach’s Bakery. Bach’s Bakery is owned by a lovely German couple. They came to China to work with the deaf community (so not only are they fluent in Chinese, they are fluent in CSL!) and the husband decided to focus more on running a Read More

It is an unfortunate fact of history that most change is born out of great tragedy. It was only after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 that killed 146 young women were fire safety codes issues that prevented any future factory disasters from ever occurring in America again. It was only after the Titanic sank that Read More

Found this amazing couch while furniture shopping today. It just sings to me.

I have made it a habit of reading the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report every day. It is based on Hong Kong with feet on the ground in mainland so their reporting is about as accurate as you can get. I highly reccommend it to anyone living in China or abroad to know Read More