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About Michael Butchin

I was born, according to the official records, in the Year of the Ram, under the Element of Fire, when Johnson ruled the land with a heavy heart; in the Cradle of Liberty, to a family of bohemians. I studied Chinese language and literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. I spent some years in Taiwan teaching kindergarten during the day, and ESOL during the evenings. I currently work as a high school ESOL teacher, and am an unlikely martial artist. I have spent much of my life amongst actors, singers, movie stars, beautiful cultists, Taoist immortals, renegade monks, and at least one martial arts tzaddik. I currently reside in Taipei, Taiwan.

Tevye the Dairyman, Sholem Aleichem

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Michael Butchin

Most people think they know Tevye the Dairyman from Sholem Aleichem’s stories. But they probably don’t. What most of us remember is the character Tevye from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and we probably remember either Zero Mostel of … Continue reading →

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