In Taiwan, Everything is Easy

Three things you are never far from on this island of Taiwan are; a beach to rock your bikini on, an English Buxiban, and a Zhongshan Road. We must get more serious here and return to this office with a plastic stool outside of it. Others may call this office a box; as it is not much more than a square wall with random blue and yellow Chinese characters littered across the top left wall. Nobody could possibly read those beautifully-written yellow and blue Chinese characters regardless of language ability. This is because of the characters' proximity of being safely out of sight all people with the sight of an ordinary human being.      Amidst the call for the next set of passengers to board the train, the fellow I have never met before begins to grope and fondle my upper back and shoulder areas. A memory lashes in my head from the last time another man contorted my body with my permission. This complete stranger luckily has decided not to make small talk as he w...

Time Abroad in Taiwan: Where Does It Go?  The first ten pages of the Western calendar year of 2018, have already been tacked to the back of a wall for some time now. Well, for those that are still tacking calendars like Grammy, your calendar has been promptly resting on the month of November for twenty two days now. Many of us expats who started the year here in Taiwan have experienced Chinese New Year, and can safely order a coffee in Mandarin by now. Lonely Grandmothers of our Expat and nomadic souls all over the world are mumbling to TV's in empty rooms, "Boy oh boy. Where did the time go this year? It's already Christmas time. I guess Johnny won't make it for Christmas this year.  I wish Johnny never would have even went to that damn China. "  Grammy Smith makes these insight-lacking comments while rest-assured there is a calendar somewhere in her house tacked all the way up to November, 22.  On this Ihla Formosa ,  I do not offer over-whelmin...