Taiwan’s Boat Burning Festival, 2012

Sometimes it gets a bit easy to forget that we are expats, living halfway across the world from “the peak of good living” (otherwise known as Apex, N.C.). People always seem surprised when I say that, probably assuming that the whole not-speaking-Chinese thing might...

Rock On: Rock Climbing Pilot Mountain

Some may say I have a mild addiction to rock climbing.  In my defense, I work the rock wall at UNCW so I spend all my free time surrounded by other climbers.  But climbing indoors isn’t quite the same thing as traversing real mountains.  For one thing, you have...