All three kids are officially on summer break now and it seems like we just celebrated Thanksgiving. I don't know where the time has gone. On top of that, this summer is going to be crazy busy with travels, camp, and getting Jake ready for college, so I don't doubt that it will … [Read more...]
Eleanor Frances Lattimore
For my June author, I thought I would feature someone I've been fond of for many years but who is no longer with us. I first heard of Eleanor Frances Lattimore more than ten years ago when a friend gave my son Jake an old copy of the children's book, Little Pear.I soon found … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
The summer hasn't started yet and I'm already knee-deep in college preparations for Jake. We've signed up for his classes, laughed through his Mandarin placement test (all a guess to him), and decided that he should study simplified characters rather than traditional ones because … [Read more...]
Treasures from a past life
For a while now, I've been thinking about the Chinese textbooks I used in college 25 years ago and how outdated they must seem now. I knew I'd kept at least one, and had looked through some bookshelves but it wasn't until this evening that I found one. And next to it was a … [Read more...]
An evening with Anna Michels
Tonight I attended a fun book event for my Good Chinese Wife editor! Anna Michels is my editor at Sourcebooks, but today is the publication date of her first novel, 26 Kisses (Simon Pulse, 2016). Isn't the cover just perfect?Her book is a young adult novel and sounds like … [Read more...]
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