I’m in the midst of reading Alain de Botton’s Essays in Love and just finished reading Love: A polemic. Reading each one has, in its own way, made me question the entire “culture of love” that exists. While reading, especially de Botton, I kept laughing out loud. And I was laughing out loud because the [...]
Chapter Seventeen - in Cambodia
The end of June and I have already been in Hong Kong six months. A 29-year-old Indonesian maid contracted Japanese encephalitis from a mosquito bite while working for a Chinese family in the new territories. The disease is so rare that it makes the front page. After testing the family she worked for, the [...]
On Divorce
Ugh. Such an ugly word. Partially because when you get married you have “happily ever after” ringing in your ears and you’re certain that you couldn’t possibly end up on the wrong side of the 50% bracket. Divorce is for other people. Silly people. People who just don’t have it together like you do, right?
Wrong.
Now [...]
