tiger1962

Honey, I promised to write a paper to remember you who loved animals so much. The title: "Governing Wildlife Protection in China: Policy Challenges and Directions". Now the paper has been completed...

Maybe it is the pressure, the time, or desire to get back to live. I signed up a dating website today. How am I going to do this? The last time I dated was more than 30 years ago. This is going to be...

I have been a teacher my whole life. My experience never prepared me when my wife passed. It was so painful, but I have no idea what struck me. I had pain before, physical and psychological. But this...

Losing spouses is one of the most painful events that could happen to a human. We are struck so hard to our core, the foundation of our lives is shaken and falling. The pain wreaks...

The strength I never asked but forever beholden. In the darkest moments of my life, I endured and still is enduring. I have relatives refusing to come and let alone help, people refusing to shake my...

A friend from the US visited Hong Kong and we had dinner last night. He is a senior professor and used to be my department chair in the US, he asked my career plan for the next. I have avoided that...

Grieving is not difficult; it is much more than difficult---no human term can describe how hard it is. But grieving is human condition that everyone experiences. Yet, no human term can describe it...

In the most desperate time of my life, sometime in November or December 2014 when I was alone taking care of my wife Yan who had terminal cancer and meanwhile worrying about my mom who was in a...

The human life expectancy in the 1950s is around 50, and now around 80-- 30 years in difference, thanks to the meidical community, which is often considered one of most significant achievements of...

I wasn't sure what to expect as last time a similar situation presented was the time of cremation, when the pain was intensively penetrating throughout my whole body. Today I placed my wife's ashes...

I have never collapsed in Yan’s treatment or after her death, even if I was the sole caretaker. The closest moment came when the doctor told me that she had about two weeks to live. That morning a...

I was asked what my spirit is. What is the most intense (or real) moment you FEEL yourself, your presence? At the times you look at the mirror? Imagine that you have NEVER seen a mirror in life until...

People fear death for various reasons—the unknown, the perpetual darkness, the feeling of total loss etc. I talked to a lady who recently lost her husband to heart attack. She told me that she was...

My wife and I know each other for 30 years and we are married for 27 years. For some reason, for quite some time after her passing, I could not picture her face or remember her voice.  This happens...

When we are young we gain things--job, car, house, marriage, children, family etc. When we get old we start to lose them. If we are lucky to live long enough, we will lose them all. So what do I...