“Into the jaws of the dragon and into the valley of Death flew the sexagenarian,” to take liberties with Tennyson. And like the great winged darkness that soared in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” the menace of SARS was to threaten me in April of 2003. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the latest viral killer to …
Revised December 2011. Travel broadens one, they say. While that epithet was meant to refer to the mind, it has a döuble-entendre for me, in that it tends to broaden my waistline as well. As a roving technical representative for some 30 years, I had opportunity to “wine and dine” on company (expense account) money, …
I have been a China watcher for a long time. During “The War” I thrilled to the news of the Flying Tigers and other units that helped defend China, and for years prayed with my Christian-school classmates for the American missionaries who were hiding, first from the Japanese invaders and later from the Communists who …