Series Preface: The Grand Art of Story In a story it is perhaps hard to appreciate a character’s journey that is tangential to our own. Not much being offered that helps us navigate our own. Or helps us understand our own, or inspires us to forget our own for a few hours, or to make…
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Do you Speak Spanish?
My Spanish-Speaking Family I’ve never considered myself a fluent Spanish speaker. On Christmas, sitting under a table as a kid, I’d listen to my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents all speak Spanish around me, but I couldn’t participate, so I grew to ignore it. I started taking Spanish classes in middle school. I learned verb…
An Archaic Concept: Postscript / Bridge
Stop! If you haven’t read the previous Delivery, you can find it here: And if you are wondering what this “Archaic Concept” stuff is, why not start at the first Delivery? Part One The old man closes his laptop and sighs. Done. That entire thread of his life is now documented. Documented as fiction, as…
Becoming Two by Gabriel Wu
成雙 愛情做了夫妻就和魔術師分離麵包恢復麵包的模樣蜜糖開始告發蜜糖的有效期我們日常收拾小孩的日常小孩收拾我們的夢 總有吵得兇的時候黑得以為看不見明早的太陽把心一狠下輩子對你的愛先拿來這輩子用 文：吳耀宗 Becoming Two Once love makes us a coupleIts magic expiresBread regains bread’s castHoney rats out its own expiration dateRoutinely we pick up our children’s routineChildren pick up our dream Once in a while we fight so hardThe night so dark that I thought the sun did not riseSo I steel myself:My love for you in the…
Church and School:
At long last, it’s the holiday break! Two weeks away from school, grading work, scraped knees, runny noses, and spelling quizzes. A chance to relax and come back refreshed in January. So of course, I started my break by visiting my parents and going to church with them. School and church. At least I’m keeping them…
An Archaic Concept of Me, Delivery 12: Song of the Sea
Where we left it in Delivery 11: “And you did not have sex with him?” I asked bluntly as I turned my gaze to her eyes again. Even as I asked I felt I was out of line. The subject of sex had suddenly appeared in my own mind. I remembered what she had told…
Great Escape: The Breakup of a Band
Sometimes I lose myself in my frustrationPerhaps of some bad romanceStuck in a complicated situationWe escaped into the wild A million sunbeams seep through the treesA thousand winds whisper in my earsThe Great Escape with our own stavesAnd the routes we choose to take To somewhere no one knowsTo ease our sorrowful souls I drown…
On Writing a Thesis
寫論文 寫論文的時候我是個扮大人說話的小孩走投無路時就開始匹諾曹式的撒謊論文越長鼻子越大這謊也就更加難圓。 On Writing a Thesis Writing a thesis,I am a child talking adult talks.At my wit’s end,I started to lie like Pinocchio.The longer the thesis,the bigger my nose,the harder it is to square the circle. (Poem and translation both by Shi Huiwen.) Spread the love
Socioeconomic Status and Food: The Conversation Begins at Home
Poverty is one of the biggest predictors of academic success for students. Teachers today are keenly aware of this. Hungry children don’t learn, so we have free-lunch programs, and teachers keep extra apples and crackers in our classrooms in a basket for whoever needs them. We have annual trainings to look out for students who…
Soul-Dancer (An Archaic Concept of Me, 11)
Where we left it in Delivery 10 I could not quite fully trust that she was as committed to our relationship as I was. I was afraid I did not quite meet her expectations. Sometimes at night, next to her, I had bad dreams, often involving being abandoned in a desert, or searching for family in…