News Archives - Jessica Rohm https://jessicadeerohm.com/category/news/ Wed, 13 May 2020 19:40:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Type of Writer I Want To Be https://jessicadeerohm.com/the-type-of-writer-i-want-to-be/ Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:19:38 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=670 The term “social portraiture” turned up in something I read recently and it has stayed in my mind ever since.  I think of Tom Wolfe, for example, and his Bonfire of the Vanities.  What is most fascinating to me is human behavior in the context of our society. I guess I always felt that way, […]

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]]> Shanghai Diary https://jessicadeerohm.com/shanghai-diary/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:01:45 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=805 Ever hear the expression “Shanghai’ed or Chaing Kai’d”? The correct expression is “Shanghai’d.” It was coined to describe what happened when drunken sailors in the port of Shanghai passed out, were kidnapped, thrown into the brig of a merchant ship, and put into slave labor– more or less. I sort of got Shanghai’d for a […]

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]]> Blowing Smoke in Shanghai https://jessicadeerohm.com/blowing-smoke-in-shanghai/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:55:32 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=803 NEWS FLASH! There are 1.9 billion Chinese and they all smoke! Buy PM, MO, LO and any other cigarette stock you can find. They smoke in office buildings, restaurants, stores, bathrooms. I’m getting some of those surgical masks but not to protect me from the chicken flu…to save me from second hand smoke! Shanghai has […]

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]]> Hong Kong Diary https://jessicadeerohm.com/hong-kong-diary/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:45:28 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=800 Well…now it’s 2 am and, despite a wonderful dinner with wine, a hot steam bath and a massage my eyes are as open as a Starbucks before the morning rush hour. Yesterday we visited the bird market where old men stroll with their pet birds in cages and chat to catch up. They believe they […]

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]]> Taiwan Diary https://jessicadeerohm.com/taiwan-diary/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:37:25 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=796 Who remembers that joke about the jackrabbit in Wyoming? About all he does is eat, sleep and hop around a bit. Well…that’s us! Weather still dreadful, which does put a damper on things. Today we woke up at 4, ate a huge breakfast, headed out at 7:30 am to explore Taiwan. The residential buildings are […]

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]]> Okinawa Diary https://jessicadeerohm.com/okinawa-diary/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:34:38 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=794 Yesterday we were in our first Japanese port, Okinawa. No WIFI or satellite allowed and we were fingerprinted and subjected to a health check. Think they trust foreigners? Okinawa was the only Japanese territory actually invaded by American foot soldiers during WWII except Iwo Jima but it doesn’t count because it wasn’t populated at the […]

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]]> Bali Redux https://jessicadeerohm.com/bali-redux/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:06:08 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=792 Wayan picked us up at ten to visit the Royal Palace at Menguwi. It is a beautiful compound, long abandoned. Now it boasts decaying structures and intricately carved statues of gods – photos to follow. I sprinkled Eberhard with holy water and then myself. We continued to Bedugul, a lovely mountain lake town, where we […]

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]]> Sedona Sightings https://jessicadeerohm.com/sedona-sightings/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:57:34 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=788 I write to you today from Sedona, Arizona. The Red Rocks are famous so we decided to pass through on our way from Santa Fe to La Jolla, where we will be celebrating Lucas’s graduation from UCSD. Maybe all of you know this already but I finally found the answer to a riddle that has […]

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]]> Stargazing in Singapore https://jessicadeerohm.com/stargazing-in-singapore/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:52:01 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=786 Sunday was a very exciting day in Bali. We drove to a mountain town with white-water rafting and elephants. We rode an elephant named Donnie – coincidentally the name of Olivia’s boyfriend and Lucas’ kitten – who then rode us right into the pond he uses as a bathtub. We came home late to a […]

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]]> Banter from Bali https://jessicadeerohm.com/banter-from-bali/ Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:31:23 +0000 http://jessicadeerohm.com/?p=784 First order of business today, I think I should call my scribbling a Bloglet, as in Booklet, not Blogette as in Crumpette – what do you think? I devised this new line extension of a Blog because I have been reading that writers should Blog daily for practice but I’m just too private to open […]

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