Mary Anne Oxendale is on a life-long quest to keep scaring herself silly with new and improbable living arrangements. She is currently based in Shanghai, where she teaches at a university (for money), takes tons of photographs (for pleasure) and writes (for sanity). She maintains a long-running blog, http://yaramaz.livejournal.com/, to remind her of where she has been, because after fifteen years of traveling it gets hard to remember sometimes.