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Olivia has been dying to blog ... but I'm staying in control. Not much she can do about it -- it's my computer, and I'm her mom. I will check her posts and make sure she's at least using proper grammar and punctuation ... though I won't necessarily censor her!

The name of our JOINT blog is "Manic Bookstore Cafe," after my long-cherished idea to open a bookstore/cafe where sometimes there will be LOTS of yummy baked goods (scones, muffins, cookies, pie, cake...) -- the result of a manic baking phase -- and sometimes ... there will be nothing. Nada. Go next door if you're hungry.

The bookstore/cafe may never happen -- do I really want to get into retail? and if Olivia goes on to other, more interesting occupations, why would I want to do it by myself? But at least we'll have this joint project for now ... until she gets old enough to have her own computer with unlimited access and her own blog.

So that's the story of the blog's name. It will be tricky to negotiate how it works, although I'm sure that eventually I'll figure out how to mark our entries as belonging to me or Olivia. In the meantime, she's starting blogging about our travel. And I sit here too, in our fabulous suite at the Traders Hotel Hong Kong, looking out at Hong Kong harbor, listening to a soccer game on the cable t.v., and planning our next foray out into the humid but fascinating city.

So far Hong Kong is great. And the humidity does great things for my hair.

Angela

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