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Exodus was the only road for the men of the seven counties of the Pearl River Delta. Eventually three-hundred thousand would go to America in the mid-nineteenth century. Criminals by default, my forebears would arrive to labor in the Gold Mountain.
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to sign up for my writing course, Essential Beginnings in NONFICTION. Heard from UCLA Extension Writers Program: They will allow my Essential Beginnings to run with just one more student. One more! Right now, the number of enrollees is 5. It’s online, and with just six students, that means it’s more like a small-group intensive…
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From Dan Antion, host of this challenge: from L to R:
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No, not Marie Antoinette’s depression (the young MA is too naive to be depressed), mine. Here’s why: I quickly rush to the Epilogue because I want to see how it all ends. Oh how tragic. She dies (!!!). I am being facetious. What I really want to know is whether any of these cruel people…
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The stairs leading to the backyard from my office leave a foot and a half of space between the cement patio and the shed door. On the other side of the steps is a faucet (out of sight) which is where I fasten the hose when I water the backyard. The second photo shows a…
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Russell Square, London Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge. There’s quite a large shadow beneath the foreground tree, but it got cropped out when I made the photo into a square. There’s another, smaller tree shadow behind.
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The host of this lens-artists challenge is Egidio/Through Brazilian Eyes. Scrolling through his gallery, I see that a quote accompanies each picture. There are many wonderful quotes, but my favorites are by Paulo Coelho and Fernando Passoa. Check them out here. Sharing some pictures I took when I was visiting Hampstead Heath, in May. In…
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One red T-shirt! Posting for Becky’s July 2025 Squares Challenge: Simply Red.
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Views of: The host of One Word Sunday is Travel with Intent.
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It’s taken me three weeks to get to this point (pardon, I did get RSV-1 and it was absolutely awful) but I am finally going to finish Orphan Bachelors. Fae Myenne Ng’s father dies. He’d been dying for a while. She gets the news in Berkeley, where she teaches. Damn, but her writing in this…
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This morning.
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Fae Myenne Ng’s memoir Orphan Bachelors taking me back: Chapter 7:
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The broth in question is shark fin soup. More from Chapter 4 of Fae Myenne Ng’s memoir/family history Orphan Bachelors. The banquet for a family member’s ninetieth birthday party features: “duck after chicken after squab and then conch, mussels, a whole flounder, and then lobster … “ Then the mock shark fin soup was served.…
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Orphan Bachelors is somewhere between a memoir and a family history, but most of all, at least in its early chapters, it’s a history of Chinese immigration in the 19th century, and it seems twice as relevant today, considering what’s going on with this administration and its co-opting of terms like “refugees” to refer to,…
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Reading with two fantastic women. It’ll be fuuuuun!!!
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Wandering Dawgs, the host of this challenge, explains the prompt: Pictures below, all from the beach at Hinoba-an, southernmost point of the island of Negros, my Dear Departed Dad’s home province, in the central Philippines. The Spaniards gave the island that name because, they said, its people were so dark. The original name of the…
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