Once Upon a Taiwan

“So they let anyone on their potato fields to pick what’s left over?” I asked a Taiwanese co-teacher. She answered, “yes.” She thought momen...

An dome of netting arches above the water surface. The lead weights splash, and the circular net sinks to the river bed. It’s Sunday after...

My first full-time elementary teaching job was at a newly constructed private school. Weeks before the new semester, we swept construction d...

Drying cabbage plants draped over riverside railings and orange pylon stantions. Plate-size cabbage leaves cover a section of sidewalk to ...

In front of my first Taiwan apartment, a shallow but wide canal flowed slowly to the Strait of Taiwan. Hundreds of dipping and diving bats...