She reads with tears and laughs. Believe me. Even you just got one reader, it’s worth more than ten thousand. — I wrote a book. Well, actually, translated. It’s got only one reader. Yes, One Reader. Maybe it will only have one reader ever. It’s my mom. She is in China, 78 now. For the major part of my memory, she was the superwoman of the large family. Now aging is…

The frog feels boundless freedom living in the well — Truth and freedom, which one comes first? There is no straight answer. Dear friends, let me tell you a story. A frog lives at the bottom of an abandoned well. It’s a happy frog. Why? Because he is totally free to explore the world –well, a world in the well…

People think they can change the world, but they can’t. People think they can’t change the world, but they can. — We all have our superman or superwoman moments. Saving a stranded bird in the park, beating your buddy on the court, a higher figure in the sales team. Naturally, the next thought would be, I will change the world. Dear fellow supermen and superwomen, did you see it? The world…

You want to see the show? Let’s hold the grip. — Hello, boomer or Gen X, do you remember the indoor TV antenna in the old days. Yes, the cute rabbit ears. And the exercises we did to them to capture the signals? From swinging the ears like crazy to hanging the weird stuff on them. My two brothers and I…

That hold you back and push you forward — When I put my hand on my little brother Sam’s shoulder on that summer day, he was six years old. I was fifteen. Back in the 1980s, every day of the summer break was an “Into the Wild Day”. Well, for the kids in our village, it was “Into the…

Remember the friends that set a fire for you in the snow. — When I moved to the U.S., my social life literally went down to zero. I’ve been incredibly lucky as the local people are super friendly. I quickly made some good friends. As the saying goes, “Real friends are rare.” It takes time and lessons to make real friends. …

Now I know the fear is something that I can dance with Fear never goes away. It’s like the summer days in Southern California. The scorching sun and the scary electricity bills come to haunt me every day. You think they are gone in the fall? …

Life is a long journey, you can make it less lonesome. — “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times”. When I read this line “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. It was indeed the best time of my career. I was the CEO of a company in Cologne, Germany. My family stayed in China. There…

Finally, virtue will beat evil. — God is busy. God is especially busy these days with all that is happening on earth. So, God’s set up a service line with hundreds of service technicians taking the calls from people on earth. Here is a call one day one of the technicians receives. “Hello, God’s service line…