The Popular Posts page lists those stories that have been viewed most often over time. This is a list of my own personal favourites – stories I like to re-read and remember.

I’ve started by choosing a Top 5:

1. Water Stories (Swan Pool) – July 2009
   Swan Lake in a pool with nunchucks. Enough said.
2. Cold and Cab Stories – December 2010
   Stories about taxi drivers and their backgrounds.
3. ANZAC Day in Beijing – April 2013
   An explanation of this Australian holiday and how I observe it overseas.
4. Accent Wars – November 2013
   It’s amazing how much of one’s identity is wrapped up in language.
5. Conversing with House Plants – April 2014
   Sometimes it can be confusing when a white girl speaks Chinese.

And because there’s no way I can keep it to just 5, here are some more of my favourites…

• Sydney Heads: between the city and the ocean – October 2015
• A whole lot of shi – September 2015
• Senses alive in Sydney – August 2015
• Reflections of China – May 2015
• The beautiful rain of Sydney – April 2015
• Souvenirs – March 2015
• Life by numbers in Chinese – February 2015
• My life is over: mourning what was – December 2014
• Okay Tones – November 2014
• Remembering chronic pain – October 2014
• The sound of rain on a tin roof – October 2014
• Obviously foreign – August 2014
• 2,000 years ago in the desert of Western China… – June 2014
• Spring Awakening – April 2014
• 清明节 – Tomb Sweeping Day – April 2014
• Legislating Fireworks – January 2014
• A pleasant homecoming – August 2013
• Tianjin Train Trip: trials and celebration – June 2013
• Back to school – talking about grief – May 2013
• Afternoon errands in Beijing – February 2013
• Spectacularly, internationally bad air – January 2013
• Bangkok – May 2011
• Beijing Conference 2011 – April 2011
• Church on the beach, Chair skating, and Cardboard shantytowns – March 2011
• Olympic Stories – September 2008
• A Big Week – August 2008
• Crazy China Stories – June 2008
• Tanya’s Crazy April – May 2008
• Tanya’s Trip Home – July 2008
• drawing in chalk – May 2008
• Ever heard of a lock in? – November 2007
• A gory story – August 2006