We thought — like SARS — that COVID-19 would have gone away by now.  Clearly not.  If you’re thinking “what does this have to do with postcards?”, we’ll tell you.         We don’t know where all our readers live.  You probably already know, though, that we’re based in Hong Kong.  Compared to […]

For this short entry, we won’t send out the general notice.  If you are seeing it (in a timely way!) you will know the message is especially for you  … as we wish our American readers in particular a very Happy Thanksgiving.  While it sometimes seems there’s not a lot of joy around, we know […]

A few months ago, we wrote about the ad card we published for ourselves.   Now it’s time to explore the whole category — love them or hate them.   We can’t speak for anyone else, but we like to think of ad cards in three groups.  First, the older ones, whose historical context and artwork […]

Back in the Dark Ages, we had a friend who was a celebrated travel writer.   He was in hot demand, by publications large and small.  No subject, however trivial; no location, however obscure, was beyond his skill.  Except one:  beaches.  He hated sand in all its forms, and more than once we heard him say […]

If you’ve spent time in Southeast Asia, you might recognise “rojak” as a kind of salad with everything in it.  The term colloquially also means “a bit of everything,” or — less politely — the dog’s lunch.  And so you are reading a rojak entry now, what comes to mind on this sunny morning.   […]