It’s been just about a month since I left New York for a visit to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where I drank plenty of Yuengling, ate too many pretzels, and smoked dozens of cigarettes in dive bars, a favorite pastime…

As is necessary because of covid, employees and customers were separated by masks and plexiglass. I ordered a dozen bagels which prompted a question that I couldn’t hear…

Yan grew up in Guangzhou, China and moved to Hong Kong on his own at the age of thirteen. He began his career as a cook at a family friend’s restaurant where he learned the method of siu mei, or Cantonese style barbecue…

His advice reminded me of another Eckhart Tolle quote, “There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other…