I recently handmade a picture book, Mental Math for America’s Young Kids, about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. How many pennies make a nickel? How many pennies and a nickel make a dime? How many ways to add up to a quarter with pennies, nickels and dimes? etc. These are not just nickel-and-dime questions but
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If Only …
I’d love to visit Red Stone Bridge again If only my arthritic knees could still bend to squat Over the 6-ft deep manure pool, still the daily toiletry activities At my birth village nestled among northern China’s deep pine forest mountains My heart longs for That remote corner on the other side of
Read MoreAmazing Christmas Lights
I knew no electric lightings The first eight years of my life Growing up with my grandparents in their one-room village house Nestled in China’s pine forest mountains, too insignificant to be on Google map. After dark, Grandmother brought over our carved wooden kerosene lamp To the center of our brick and mud
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One of my childhood nightmares is returning to haunt me: bloody hemorrhoids. The excessive silent bleeding scares me more than the pain. And it’s embarrassing, literally located “where the sun don’t shine!” (I love the funny American folk saying!) I don’t want to go to Kaiser. It’s said that Covid-19 has been prioritized over
Read MoreThe Gift
Jade was a small peasant girl in China’s deep mountains. Exceptionally bright, beautiful, and healthy, She was valued only as a piece of roof tile In the eyes of her parents. They sent her dull-brained brother to school And force-bound her feet into a pair of 3-inch “golden lily” stubs when she was
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