Although Thomas Wolfe, in the pantheon of my favorite wordsmiths, pretty much said it can't be done, I am going "home again." I am going to the deepest part of Dixie, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, to attend my mother's funeral. Just about everything I wanted and needed to say about this sorrowful journey is in the post below.
This post is simply informational. Readers and Students: I am leaving Beijing, and these pages, Saturday afternoon, September 16th, and will return to Beijing, and one hopes to these pages, the following Saturday, September 23.