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My Life and Times With The (New York) Times

April 15, 2024 By Linda Frank Leave a Comment

It’s been almost a year since my last blog post. If this sounds like the movie version of someone entering the confession booth in church, I mean no disrespect to those who know and practice the real thing.

Last year’s plethora of posts celebrated our post-pandemic return to China and other travel on “their” (our kids’) side of the International Dateline. Posts were packed full of adventure, revisited and first-time destinations, newfound relatives, and family history resources.

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Filed Under: Antisemitism, Beijing, China, family, Friends, Israel, losing a child, New York Times

A Journey Begins: Who’s it all about? What’s it all about?

December 3, 2012 By Linda Frank Leave a Comment

No, not “Alfie.”          

Monday morning (December 3, 2012) at Hong Kong airport. We lost Sunday to the International Dateline.

My website has an “About” page that’s about me from the standpoint of my writing, how I got to be where I am today as an author of a novel. But that’s not all there is about me, and even what I am about is not all about me. Got that? Let me try to explain.

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Filed Under: China, Friends, travel Tagged With: After the Auction, Alicia Urban, Ann and Irwin Bear, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Shanghai

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