Travels with Michael

In the last ten plus years, I have had the good fortune to travel to countries some of which are not on many tourists' beaten tracks, and spend a considerable amount of time in certain ones, long enough to get a feel for the place. Above all, I have met many interesting people in different countries, some of whom have come to be good friends. While much of my traveling had been in connection with Michael's international consulting/teaching work, we had managed to do traveling of our own between his work trips. Some of the most interesting and fulfilling experiences had been in Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, China (including a good number of provinces, districts, cities and towns), Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Sarawak (Malaysia), South Africa, Tanzania, Uzbekistan.  I will share some photos (in the Travel Section), and stories based on my travels in my Blog with my readers, over time.  My travels have all enriched my life experience immeasurably.   

  

My road to self-publishing

Updated on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 04:41PM by Elsie

I started writing my first novel Hui Gui eleven years ago, 1998, when I was a librarian with Scarborough Public Library in Toronto. Hui Gui, which literally means returning home in Chinese, is a novel about events in Chinese and Hong Kong history in the 60 some years leading to the return of Hong Kong to China by the British in 1997, as told through the lives of one Chinese landlord's family. I took the workshop at Humber School for Writers that summer of '98, and decided to continue with the correspondence program in the following winter. I was very fortunate to have Isabel Huggan as my mentor. That was the beginning of the writing of the formal manuscript of Hui Gui.

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