“The afternoon sunk into the tall grass growing on the roadside. The distant dome turned from coral to burnt umber, a final flash of amber as the stars unveiled themselves above. In the last light of dusk, we facemmo la… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“Patrick would flip The Beatles on mornings after a fight, when we’d bake bread, kneading our troubles into something we could eat. We’d take… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“The deeper I went into the valley, the greater the rewards. First, it was a clump of birches, the bottoms wrapped in thick fog,… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“The afternoon sunk into the tall grass growing on the roadside. The distant dome turned from coral to burnt umber, a final flash of… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“It came as a surprise to us, as I suspect it does to many, that marriage changed us. We’d felt as though we’d always… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and I realized… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the sky, filtered… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“We arrived in Ulm just after the honeymoon, the moving there only prolonging it. Having slept that glorious jet-lag sleep right into evening on… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“And then there was his love affair with my best friend, perhaps the only woman he’d ever seen drink several glasses of bai-jiu and… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come to realize… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“My favorite times were spent in his backyard where he and his roommates had “let nature take its course,” the weeds towering above our… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“They then interviewed us, asking about our love of Qingdao, how we met, why we came. Having learned quickly what they wanted to hear,… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“Besides all of this, Patrick and I living together for the first time meant it was the beginning of a life together, that nitty-gritty… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“In his lifetime, that small fishing village had turned into the seventh largest port in the world, an eight-million-strong city; women had gotten the… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“After scouring the local newspaper with Oliver, a worried colleague, Patrick noticed an ad for a one-bedroom in Maehringen, a small village outside town.… — Megan Rich Copy Share
“A funny thing about living abroad is that what might separate us expats back home brought us closer together in China. We'd listen to… — Megan Rich Copy Share
