" "Pop"?? Ha ha -- "Grandpa smiled," yes, we are popular. What's popular with your children? " So I proudly sang Jay Chou's new song: "in my territory, you have to listen to me..." "Xuaner likes to hear mosquitoes hum? Well, listen, listen! " I can see grandpa is a bi...
I bit my tongue. How could I tell Mum it was the___dress I had ever seen? “It’s perfect for church,” mother continued happily. “I wish___had made a dress like this for me.” Too bad you can’t wear it, I thought. But I knew Mum had spent a lot of time on the dress...
Follow the goals you have set for yourself, even if this means supplementing the work that is done in your course. For instance, if your goal is to have a good accent, you can work on your pronunciation if it is not stressed in your course....
There are real benefits to doing so. Rejoicing changes my attitude. It allows me to have a positive attitude as I go through this life. Rather than being grumpy or critical, I can be thankful because I am not facing this alone. When rejoicing in the Lord, I am more inclined to have ...
The same word the Bible uses for light in Matthew 5 to describe Christ’s Church also describes Christ Himself in John 8:12: “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of l...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning 64 A poem is never finished, only abandoned. —Paul Valery ...
Growing up in a Fundamentalist church, I came to know by heart moral tales in the Bible like the Old Testament story of how the ravenously hungry Esau gave his birthright away to his trickster brother, Jacob, for a bowl of soup—called “a mess of pottage.” My third collage box is di...
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. —George Armstrong Custer 37 The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. —Robert Coover 14 Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. —John Barth ...
most of us had never heard many of these stories. I remember my great-grandmother’s large Victorian house in downtown Katy when it was next to the Methodist church but I don’t remember it when it had a chicken coop with fresh eggs or a cow grazing next to the sanctuary. By the ti...
So here is the product of just one of thousands of such intervals over the centuries when Force is looking the other way, the magical entertaining, compassionate, scary (the first time) anonymous 14th century Arthurian poem, first recorded publicly to make a small splash enough when added to ...