Essays/News
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Stephen Roach Grouped Me With Hong Kong’s Deputy Financial Secretary. Here Is What He Missed.
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Stephen Roach engaged the argument. This piece answers it, directly, with the missing sequence he left out.
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I Live in a City Where Healthcare Costs Fifty Dollars
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A sharp comparison between Hong Kong’s public healthcare system and America’s insurer-driven maze, sparked by one damning line in a murder case.
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Convergence
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Convergence I married a woman from Hong Kong. She is Chinese. I am not. This has never been interesting to either of us. I married…
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Seventeen Years
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Seventeen Years Today is August 17, 2026. Seventeen years ago today, in a small ceremony in Massachusetts, Ruth became my wife. By midnight, she was…
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Stephen Roach Is Still Wrong About Hong Kong. Here’s Why.
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A Hong Kong rebuttal with receipts, impatience, and a very short memory for bad frameworks. Stephen Roach just published another op-ed declaring Hong Kong “over.”…
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Travels With My Wife: Part II — International Incidents
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A second round of international travel disasters, featuring the Gucci tunnels, contraband jackfruit, and the ongoing administrative consequences of loving the wrong travel companion.
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Sleep When You’re Dead (Or After 1 AM, Whichever Comes First)
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There are cities that sleep. Paris dozes off after the last métro. London starts yawning around eleven, apologetically. Even New York, the city that supposedly…
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The Kid on the Train, the Jawbreaker, and the Sticker on the Window
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A reflective essay on trust, childhood freedom, and why Hong Kong can feel safer than the place you grew up.
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Travels With My Wife: A Survival Guide
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I love my wife. I want to lead with that, because what follows may prompt some of you to question that statement. But I do.…