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12
Dec
Divided attention
This Monday was a tough day at school. We are nearing the end of the semester and I had several
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28
Nov
How translation can save us / Is translation even possible?
Earlier this month, I attended a week-long translation workshop in Tainan, co-hosted by the British Center for Literary Translation and
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05
Nov
A mouth at the door - an invitation
When writing fiction, I ask students to begin with a question – what does your main character want? And what is
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02
Nov
The kids are all right (plus an embedded writing exercise for you to try!)
At the start of the year, I always ask my literature students – a mix of juniors and seniors – how many
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25
Oct
To the rain
It’s been raining incessantly in Taipei. Even for a climate with high humidity, a fall typhoon season, and a
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28
Sep
The one in the middle is the green kangaroo
Our younger son, S, has moved into his older brother’s empty bedroom. In the beginning, when I saw the
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21
Sep
Community is built one person at a time.
If I’m not near my notebook when I come across a good line – usually, when I’m listening to
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13
Sep
The poetry of a really good sandwich
I host a weekly faculty and staff writing group where I offer an optional prompt and people either write to
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01
Aug
Put your wandering heart away
The last days of summer used to make me feel blue. I sense that same end-of-summer drag in my children
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29
Jul
If you build it...
Ever since I met Keith, my husband’s brother-in-law, he’s talked about this little plot of land by the
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