bloomabilities

I'm a children's book editor living in Brooklyn. I post about books, publishing, life, travel, food, and other random stuff. I was widowed in 2016, and may post about my grief and recovery on occasion as well.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

More China stuff, being back home

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I've been back for about five days now, and getting accustomed to the daily routine again. I'm the only one of my travel companions ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Highlights of the China trip

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I just mixed this new animoto video with some highlight pics from our China trip. The pics aren't in order, but I think they give a good...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Another Great Wall video and yesterday's adventures

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Here's another video from the Great Wall: It's freezing cold in Beijing now. We've taken somewhat abbreviated tours because of i...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

The Great Wall is indeed great, but the Summer Palace is not summery.

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The Great Wall lived up to the hype; it was absolutely incredible, breathtaking, awe inspiring. We went to the Ba Da Ling section of the Wal...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Mellow Sunday and Off to the Summer Palace and the Great Wall...

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**Pictures added 1/22** Yesterday was fairly mellow. We worked out in the morning in the fancy gym in Chi-Chu's condo complex (it seems ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

more travel thoughts

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I'm about to go to bed, but wanted to write a quick post. I just got back from a club with Eveline and Chi-Chu. Once again, the others w...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

The halfway point...

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**Pictures added 1/22** It's hard to believe our trip is about half over. We leave a week from today. On the one hand, we've done a ...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

Getting here

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I'm in Beijing! What follows is a fairly dry account of our first night in China. I'm jetlagged, and it's all I can muster. I go...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

Two days till China...

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Well, it's been a whirlwind since the holidays, and now I'm getting ready to head off to China. For those of you who didn't know...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Happy Blogiversary fellow bloggers and blog readers!

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I woke up this morning to an NPR story about blogs , which reminded me that it was my day to post. According to a Wall Street Journal articl...
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