An excerpt from The Three-inch Golden Lotus: a novel on foot binding by Feng Jicai (Blogger's note: foot binding wa...

"And I'm thinking of you, down in Mexico Feeling free as the air Here I am, stuck in the city Still goin' now...

Here's one that simply blew me away. There are plenty of YouTube videos of child prodigies performing, but this one tops them all. Har...

I have a history with this piece. My father had a large and eclectic collection of recordings - we'd call them vinyl LPs now - repres...

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It all started with wanting a bird. Wanting a bird sort of came out of the blue, except that it didn’t. Our cat had just died at ag...