• a place to become

    My dad built us a new couch months ago. I put temporary bedsheets over the cushions I made. They were intended to be there for a couple of weeks while I waited for fabric to arrive. The fabric has been on back order since April.…

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  • Sisters. Singing. Serious & Silly.

    My parents have a few videos of me making a similar face. Actually, mine wasn’t as cute when my little sister interrupted a serious song rendition I was performing. My performances were serious matters, no room for a little sister goofing off, but she was…

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  • our most spectacular national treasure

    From my journal: “July 9, 2017. There is so much I appreciate and respect about this country (China) and its culture. A natural part of travel is reflection regarding my own country, my perceptions and what I value. My mind goes back to all the…

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  • Panic and the new school year

    I opened a couple of Corbett’s 8th grade textbooks and panicked. “Formal proof of validity” – huh? what? Letters and symbols used in ways that definitely were not spelling words. – Panic. Immediately, the routine pre-school fears came sweeping over me. I was doomed not just…

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  • warmly welcomed

    Within a week of arriving in China we had been invited to dinner 5 times by different families/individuals. We were shown the best places to buy fruit, where to get our water jugs filled, which bus would take us into Beijing and how to use…

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