by Charity Lee Jennings | Nov 28, 2018
Sipping my drink then glancing down, I frowned. Hot water would have been less disappointing. It was my third time to use the peppermint tea bag that floated in my cup. I drink my herbal tea sparingly, not knowing when I’ll get more. When someone is coming from Canada...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Nov 14, 2018
I felt an urgency to capture this scene. In the shifting sand of Chinese culture, there’s a stretch between the lifestyles of young men and their grandfathers and I wonder how long this pastime will last. I arrived in time to see an elderly man lean his bicycle...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Nov 1, 2018
Fall means one Thanksgiving, then another. That’s how I experience it here in my international community – Canadian Thanksgiving in October and American Thanksgiving in November. I’m glad. I need this reminder to be grateful. And it was just last fall while looking...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Oct 16, 2018
The woman behind me paced and ranted. “Tai man le, zhe ge lao wai.” I didn’t like it any more than she did. When I started this sketch I thought I was racing against time – five minutes, maybe ten to capture this display of chops, but over an hour later, when I was...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Oct 10, 2018
Homeschooling high schoolers is hard. “They can work more independently,” I hear, as though the difficult days are behind. While they often get through lessons without help from me, the new skills they must learn: writing research papers, meeting deadlines, stretches...
