This is a drawing my daughter made when she was 4 years old. It depicts our family picking rainbow fruit in a garden. Neither of us has any talent for painting, so we never taught ...

Entering my forties, the arrogant bravado of my youth has faded away. Earning money to support my family has become life's top priority. I've gradually lost patience for things I c...

Caption: Buendía is the name of a family in Gabriel García Márquez's famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Every member of this family lives in their own world, caring only a...

📷 Image caption: Edward Snowden, wanted by the U.S. since 2013 for exposing the "PRISM" program — a project involving deep surveillance of Americans' real-time communications and ...

I've been reading Li Xiaolai's Make Friends with Time these past few days, and I'm deeply impressed by his relentless drive for learning. Some of the ideas in the book have also co...

Yesterday my wife and I went to Sancha Lake to see the water. Around noon, we parked at the pier, grabbed some snacks, and boarded a free ferry. This boat shuttles residents betwee...

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Since life hasn't undergone earth-shattering changes, I haven't written a year-end review in quite a few years. Its existence is necessarily a ritual — something worth commemoratin...