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I live, I see, and I write. I’ve done that for years on social media and in newspapers and magazines. I’ve also done it in both my books. Here’s a column titled Facebook Face-off that shows you how my life was derailed by Facebook. Here’s one titled The Best or Nothing that describes the twilight years of a car that once gave meaning to our lives.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, my home for the last four decades. Since I have so much to say, I decided to continue writing my weekly newsletters in a slightly different form. You can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, instagram and LinkedIn.
I wrote twenty letters from Singapore when I lived there in the first half of 2021. My readers said they found my posts engaging and informative. Read the first one—QUARANTINED IN PARADISE—and I hope you’ll be hooked and want to read them all. Many local Singaporeans said that my words made them look at their hometown with new eyes.
When I returned home, I was looking for ways to make my posts useful to others and to me and I thought about what I loved to do. For the last many years, I’ve enjoyed reading books in translation. That’s how LETTERS FROM EVERYWHERE was born.
Every week I write about one book from around the world and I share my thoughts on it. Some weeks are exhausting. The week I read GODAAN and the time I read MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (and its sequels) certainly fall into that category. It’s almost madness to cram a 450-paged book into a week. Other things begin to slide. I’ve pull all-nighters in some instances but, more and more, I’m learning how to pace myself. When I travel, things do fall apart, unfortunately; you may understand when you read A COMEDY OF TERRORS.
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