by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 25, 2017
Kids, ready to be released for the biggest holiday of the year, chanted a poem that told of the series of days that would carry them to Chinese New Year. The first special day, when they ate Eight Treasure Porridge, had already passed. Now they anticipated the...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 18, 2017
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” Melody Beattie Winter in China is like a popcorn string of holidays. The cool of October brings Canadian Thanksgiving and in November, along with American friends, we give thanks again ushering in a season filled with...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 11, 2017
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill It wasn’t until I’d been in China a few years and collected a suitcase full of adventures that I longed to return to school. (My desire to see the world had trumped sitting...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 4, 2017
Here she is – the woman who represents what, for me, somehow slipped away.
by Charity Lee Jennings | Dec 28, 2016
It’s a simple looking thing. If you saw it in my home you might not give it a second glance. But I’m reminded it ranks high as kids quiet for the night and from the shelter of my room I hear water boiling and spoons tinkling. Brian is preparing two hot drinks to...
