Views From The West

This past week when I went into Kashgar to purchase more minutes for my cell phone, I discovered that all cell phone numbers are now registered. Who is my cell phone registered to? A certain Dilishat! (This is the Chinese transliteration of the Uyghur name “Dilshat.”) Here’s what happened…
I walk into the Telephone company branch […]

This past summer (yeah, I’m gradually getting my blog caught up) I had the privilege of attending a music conference in St. Paul. It was very exciting, listening to styles of music all over the world that I had never even heard of before, much less heard performed. I’ve added a link here on the […]