Community just isn’t what it used to be, is it? Early in the morning, over the lunch hour, and after dinner, I spent this past week pursuing responsibility and excellence purposefully with an intergenerational, multi-national team. And we did it over Zoom. Like many of you, my past months have been ones of restrictions: Avoid …
I come from a family of readers. My husband has handled books professionally for a career, and our family used the “great books” as the major educator for our children’s home-based learning. Ask me sometime for the story of how we handled it when our young daughter said she couldn’t read in the car and …
Note: April 2020 update at the bottom of this post. Growing up in a densely-populated county in New Jersey, Eunice learned to separate her recyclables from the weekly trash (rubbish). Aluminum, glass, cardboard, newsprint, mailers, and eventually plastics, too, would be placed curbside in their own containers. As the local district reviewed best practices for …
A city of contrasts is my host city. Birds flying in unison, free. Birds singing in a cacophony, caged. This week thousands of Asian openbill storks have been spotted flying across the nation. Thanks to Au’s father for his photos of what he spotted. But birding is also a pastime favored by some older …
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. A three-second pause. Thump, thump. And we are off again! What was all that, you ask? We were in a public bus plying the streets of Manila. The conductor, who had stepped out of the bus, was banging on the side of the bus as passengers jumped out …