Curtis Orio
As a widowed, middle-aged, single-parent, I left behind the life I knew for a new beginning in Guangxi, China. There, I fulfilled my life’s ambition and wrote, The Untethered Kite, detailing my experiences as an expat adrift in a foreign land with new challenges.
“When I Let Go of What I Am,
I Become What I Might Be.”
Lao Tzu
The Untethered Kite
Can a shattered romance trigger so drastic a displacement? Am I fleeing something, as others alleged?
The Untethered Kite tells the story of how a middle-aged man, widowed at thirty, and with the demanding years of single-parenting now behind him, forsook his home, his job, and casting complacency aside, rose from the despair of a broken engagement to search for love and happiness in China, an upheaval as uncertain, as haphazard, but as potentially uplifting as a kite set adrift from its string.
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Sketches of China
American Panda
My published article in My China Story
Videos of China: Guangxi, Nanning and beyond
Typical Traffic
The always busy streets in Nanning.
Stories
Posts from my time in China
The Great Wall
It was one of life’s dream to see this structure.
Oreo in Chinese
That cookie, famous the world over!
A Visit to McDonald’s
In America, I rarely went to McDonald’s. I hate onions, and McDonald’s puts onions…
Meet Curtis
I grew up in Connecticut, taught students with Special Needs, became a widowed single-parent at 30, departed my job at Yale, moved to China at 49 to teach English and now, retired, live in Georgia to pursue more writing projects.