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Nov.22.2012
Thanksgiving Day for Americans is just another Thursday for the rest of the World. Happy Thanksgiving everybody, everywhere!
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Oct.04.2011
Box From China Xiaoxuan's long-awaited box from China arrived on a Saturday afternoon. I'd alerted our mail-carrier and he appeared at the door with a huge smile on his face, seeming proud to deliver Xiaoxuan's gifts from her parents. I haven't seen all the contents yet, but Xiaoxuan delights in...
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Oct.02.2011
OCTOBER 2011 Relief. It's been difficult to write these past few weeks.  It would be unfair to paint a perfect picture of the past six weeks.  And at a later date, I'll give details about the not-for-profit (?) organization that solicited Xiaoxuan's school in Wuhan with the offer of this...
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Sep.18.2011
LOOKING FOR MOONCAKES   This year, September 12 (in China) was the (Mid-Autumn) Chinese Moon Festival. ( http://www.chinatravel.com/focus/mid-autumn-festival/ GREAT video! )   Xiaoxuan showed me an internet link early in September, which explained the significance of the Autumn Festival...
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Sep.02.2011
Tropical Storm Lee   Tonight we watched “Finding Neverland” on DVD with English subtitles.  It was a great help!   A storm that would not remain nameless, now travelling at THREE mph (tripled speed since yesterday), Lee will dump too many inches of rain over the next few days....
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Sep.01.2011
Thank you, REDROOM, for welcoming me!   The past week has been an unfortunately frustrating attempt to upgrade from dsl so Xuaixuan can have better Skype performance.  With our new “intermittent” internet service, I can’t understand the “upgrade” term applying at all.   Although the...
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