Today, I wake up in English, discuss household items in Russian, muse about life and love in French and go to bed in Italian.
As I lay in bed reading my nighttime book, Un altro giro di giostra (Another ride on the Merry-go-round), by Tiziano Terzani, I was thinking about how funny it is to have [...]

I’ve been at Book Expo America (BEA) in Los Angeles since yesterday learning about how to publish in a digital world. I’ve been learning a lot and have been connecting with experts in the area. So many authors and publishing companies don’t know how to attract online audiences, so the faster I learn, the more [...]

Coughing up phlegm, coughing deeply, blowing my noise, talking like a chain smoker — all signs of illness.
My Dad pleaded for me to go to Kaiser and get an Xray. Maybe I had bronchitis.
I went to the Five Branches School of Chinese medicine for treatment. I’d rather take herbs and be poked with [...]

I arrived at the Sunnyvale Caltrain station and there was no parking in the train parking lot. Instead, I parked in a municipal lot across the street from the train station and risked getting a parking ticket since the parking lot had a three hour limit. I parked, ran to the station and arrived breathless [...]

My parents often read the Russian language newspapers printed in the US for the predominantly Jewish Russian speaking community. A while ago, my father showed me an article about Barack Obama’s Muslim roots. With alarm, my Dad said that Obama was dangerous for the US because both his father and stepfather were Muslim and he [...]

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercleSur l’esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis…
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrieQui se mettent à geindre opiniâtrement.
When the low, heavy sky weighs like a lidOn the groaning spirit, victim of long ennui,
Even as wandering spirits with no countryBurst into a stubborn, whimpering [...]

I wrote an opinion piece about another way to approach the Chinese government to stop its repression in Tibet and negotiate with the Sudanese government.
Here it is:
http://www.jewishsf.com/
Friday May 9, 2008
Let’s help China remember its own occupation
by susanna zaraysky
The action alerts from various Jewish community organizations in an alliance to stop the genocide in Darfur [...]

Today, I wake up in English, discuss household items in Russian, muse about life and love in French and go to bed in Italian.
As I lay in bed reading my nighttime book, Un altro giro di giostra (Another ride on the Merry-go-round), by Tiziano Terzani, I was thinking about how funny it is to have [...]

Oh, how I love to be a United Premier Frequent Flyer member. I go in the fast check in lanes at the airport. I board early. I get to sit in Economy Plus seats that give me five inches of extra leg room and if spaces allows, the seat next to me is empty. Plus, [...]

When I was in China last month, I was tired of traveling and tagged along my mom’s tour group. I was feeling a bit braindead from dealing with a bad accident in Taiwan and the difficulties of traveling in chaotic China. Well, I wasn’t the only braindead person on the tour. It seemed like many [...]