This is the title of a book i am discussion leader for today at lunchbunch. It is a love story between a Chinese and Japanese boy and girl who met during world war 2 in California. There is some great historical info intertwined which made the read very interesting and landed it on my favorite list. i went to the "author talk" at the FlagBookFest and absolutely loved it. how cool to hear the workings of the story from the man who wrote it!
There was also a man there who read some of his poetry. i want to admit i barely understood half of the poems. i am a college graduate but realized my vocab is probably an 8th grade level. i had never thought of that before... what does "reading at a 7th grade level" mean? it must have to do with vocab and comprehension, not just that someone dropped out of school at 7th grade. the poet had great word choice creating vivid images but then he'd use a big word at the end and i couldn't quite get the punch line so i just followed the crowd with a "ha", a clap and a nod acting like i knew how funny it was. i was slightly depressed at my underachiever-realization that i hadn't pushed myself to learn more back in the day and possibly i truly am an 8th grade reader.. YIKES! but i also left slightly motivated to learn new bigboy words and encourage my kids to get into more difficult reading.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Dinner Shout Out
This is a shout out to Ruth. Remember when you gave me a recipe for chicken and dumplins way back when we were newly weds in Sure-Man, TX? (probably not but it was the same time as you givin me the pinto bean cannin recipe). Well Yesterday Jeremy found it in my ratty recipe binder and wanted it for dinner. Lo and Behold he made it for us ALL BY HIMSELF!! it was amazin, fantastic, wonderful, awesome--the best thing ever! he peeled the carrots and potatoes and chopped the celery, made the dumplin batter, i mean everything!! it was the most divine thing i've ever eaten. so your love is still bein felt down here in air-i-zona and i thank ya!
Thursday, April 07, 2011
More Bloggin
Today when Kell-E was over (or should it be KellE, KellyE, kellyeeee?) i was expressin my desire to improve my bloggin skills and abilities as a way to be a little more creative and encourage journalin and trackin of my family and kinsfolks (yee haaaw!) so hopefully ya'll 'll get to be seein a bit more of the hansens than ya'll've seen in the previous past.
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