Musings on Life in Hong Kong

Many pro-establishment types like to gloat - claiming that Occupy Central has failed.   That the pro-democracy protesters failed to pressur...

A 14-year old girl drew two flowers with chalk on the wall outside government headquarters.   She was arrested for "criminal damage...

Persepolis was sacked and burned by Alexander the Great in 330 BC, only about 200 hundred years after it was built.   But it must have been ...

On the way from Tehran to Isfahan, we stopped in Kashan to visit the Borujerdis House, the house of a wealthy merchant. It has a beautiful h...

I have wanted to visit Persepolis for a long time.   Finally, here I am.   I have seen photographs of it before and I have had an idea what ...

Here is my Persian cat.  She found me on a street in Tehran, and just would't let go. 

I know there are lots of antelopes in Africa, and there are many different species.   But I was still surprised to see antelopes on the menu...