I know why the lone sparrow chirps

May 26, 2023 No Comments

i too feel the need

Memory & Nostalgia #4: Finding Lost Treasures

January 13, 2023 No Comments

sometimes i find lost treasures and i wonder, were they ever mine?

Memory & Nostalgia #5: The Demons in My Head

August 30, 2022 No Comments

steady mindshouting those bitches down

Memory and Nostalgia #3: Death and Regret

August 8, 2022 No Comments

Seeing death in action has me scrambling …

The Sliver of a Moon

May 26, 2015 No Comments

A waxing crescent above Lake of the Isles and the sky drifts towards darkness, crimson pink purple and orange on one side, the first stars

The Boys and Minnesota

April 19, 2015 No Comments

The reason we moved back to the US is beginning to unfold, as spring takes hold, and the boys behold the burgeoning beauty of a

It’s April Again (Redux)

April 5, 2015 No Comments

I spent most of last year refusing to look at this blog, while it festered away in purgatory, punished for being a low priority. For

Juvenile

December 26, 2013 No Comments

A long long time ago, a girl told me to keep my voice. That was back in January of 2008, when I was writing this.

Stay the course

December 11, 2013 No Comments

I recently wrote a post about my Chengdu Compound, and the comments on the post, and on Reddit, reflect two things, in general: 1) Good

like a chicken grease chord

November 23, 2012 No Comments

Doing research for this project brought a picture to my mind of me in a field of yellow flowers with a long butterfly net chasing

Adrift during the Holiday

October 2, 2012 No Comments

I find myself sleeping, tweeting, taking notes. Talking to people I don’t know. Coffee and cigarettes. And carrying my son around on my shoulders so

Gibbering again

September 26, 2012 No Comments

My vision of myself rarely coincides with the vision others have of me. When people think highly of me, I hear the sniveling thief gibber

The Struggle for Hong Kong

September 10, 2012 No Comments

Here in Chengdu, people have been asking me: “Hey, did you hear what they did in Hong Kong? They stood up to the government.” There

Before I die

September 7, 2012 No Comments

Factories will have no workers, just a few people making sure the machines are well-oiled Doctors will never touch a knife, only input the data

The Dreamer and the Rebel

May 18, 2012 No Comments

When I look at my sons, I feel as if the complexities of my soul have been sundered into two separate facets and placed within

Pragmatic above all things

May 9, 2012 No Comments

I know a girl named Color who stopped me on the street one day and said, I am different from every other Chinese girl out

Silk Roads and Great Walls

April 7, 2012 6 Comments

What we today call the Chongqing Model and the Guangdong Model are just new names for an ancient struggle. Since the first brick was laid

That cess in yer chest

January 7, 2012 2 Comments

Tell me how to keep the smile on my face when I start every morning hacking like an old revolutionary until lung butter splatters the

Merry Christmas from the Family

December 26, 2011 No Comments

Here are some recent pics of my two boys, Stinky and Plumpy. For family and friends 😉 Love, Sascha Yushi Dorian Damian  

The Future is now

August 31, 2011 5 Comments

While avoiding the drudge work at Ctrip, I stumbled across the theory of neoteny in evolution. Neoteny is when infant features appear in adults ie

Scattered Fam

August 17, 2011 7 Comments

So we’re on the eternal search for “the Spot” that will allow me to sip tea and write best sellers while bean makes big big

Fast, Cheap or Good: You can only have Two

May 20, 2011 3 Comments

Rumor has it that Tom Waits once said this to Jim Jarmusch over whiskey and pop tarts, but it could have been Ben Franklin. I

Whatcha Learn

April 11, 2010 2 Comments

You know my family always used to make fun of my dad cuz he had like one or two homies. and even those guys he

From Now On

February 21, 2010 5 Comments

Dorian turns two weeks in a little less than an hour. The following is an altered message I wrote to a friend and is the

Beginning to feel the 安

February 13, 2010 7 Comments

安 means peace and is represented by a woman under a roof. I always figured this character was a bit patriarchal … but now that

redemption is just one way of saying

January 22, 2010 5 Comments

my job is to pull you back from the brink of darknessprotect you from the prince of shadowsshow you the flower in all seasonskeep you

This shit really happens

November 25, 2009 2 Comments

In the Sanctuary in Oakland with my main men Big Scott and Johnny Frizzle. Today we tore the house up to try and find my

Well well well

November 9, 2009 6 Comments

What Providence, What Divine Intelligence … so i am leaving the Wagon today and headed to a different brighter spot up the road a bit.

If Babylon falls in my lifetime

April 10, 2009 No Comments

Nicole be twitterin with Questlove these days cuz he is in P-town freezin his ass off … i mean it aint that cold up here

I take my music whereever I go

March 5, 2009 2 Comments

because I’m just so in love with it. I beatbox walkin down the block a lot and sing in easy soul rhymes. My gait loses

Every step of the way

February 17, 2009 4 Comments

I realized something very profound this morning and i am going to try and explain as best i can. it began when i thought about

Opportunities

October 7, 2008 1 Comment

I trust myself now more than ever. I thought to myself the death of Wall Street could only be a boon for me and mine.