Posted on June 29, 2008 by lynnjake
Today I posted this review on the NWP ELL Network Discussion Listserv, and I want to make sure those of you who are not on this listserv have a chance to learn of this book as well. It is truly a special book:
Today I’d like to tell you about an eloquent book I read [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by lynnjake
Last I heard there are some 600+ 1000 fires burning in Northern California at the present time, courtesy of a lightning storm last Saturday. Although they are some distance from us, Chico is completely socked in with smoke. The hills have disappeared completely, as has everything that’s more than a few blocks away. Hardly anyone [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2008 by lynnjake
I often think of - dream of - my home as my “safe haven.” In my mind it is where I come to remind me of myself, to wash off the outside world and rest my body, mind and spirit. I listen to music here, and wander in my garden, sit on the brick patio, surrounded by fragrant herbs and just breathe.
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Posted on June 15, 2008 by lynnjake
Oh my gosh, isn’t this the coolest thing? I found myself adjusting the words in the blogpost to make the Wordie cloud look better.
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Posted on June 14, 2008 by lynnjake
First of all, what is a meme? Here is what “The Daily Meme” says: “In the context of web logs / ‘blogs / blogging and other kinds of personal web sites it’s some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer the questions. Then someone else [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by lynnjake
In 2003 I traveled to Laos with a small group of people from California. Two of them were teachers from Modesto, and they had brought along children’s books written in Hmong and Lao that their school district had published. On this day we were visiting a Hmong village in the northwest corner of [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by lynnjake
I find myself with a little extra time this morning in Philadelphia. I got up early and went out to take some photos in the fresh early light. Except it is already about 90 degrees, and the air feels like pudding, so I lasted for about ten minutes. Wouldn’t you know I’d be here just [...]
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