All posts tagged ‘everyday’

New place

On a quiet side street on the north side of the city. Similar to your window in Brooklyn, the apartment has a balcony facing a red brick spice factory. Our first meal in the small kitchen was your pasta. And now, at 4 a.m., I finally turned in the subtitle translation for a documentary. Good […]

the awakening of hibernating insects

Last weekend, during our phone conversation, my mother mentioned the awakening of insects, that is, 驚蟄, the 3rd solar term. (Is such a calendar valid on the tropical island of Taiwan?) It reminded me of one spring when I was sitting in my advisor’s office at the Department of Anthropology in Taipei, talking about my […]

family cameras

I spent the whole night sitting at the table scanning film negatives taken with the Olympus Mju Panorama. Mom said it was a used camera they bought from the photo studio in our small town. Unlike the SLR and medium format cameras my grandfather and uncle gave me, it lacked professional considerations. Many of our family […]