“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” –George Bernard Shaw This can be true for many people because some people look at heaven as a place to reunite with loved ones that passed away earlier. This is because when they can be with them, they are happy again. If a family was like that Read more…
Plastic Bottle ==>Fabric There is a company in Hong Kong that shipped 30,000 blankets to Japan in 2011 to help all the people that lost their homes in the tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in 2011. Why and how did they do this? The answer to this question can start in Read more…
Pearl Harbor On Sunday, December 7th, 1941, Faustino, like most people in Hawaii, made his way to the local Hawaiian church. The sun slowly rose out of the horizon. Faustino was an only child; his unique name was of Italian origin. That’s because his ancestors were all Italian and decided to give all their children, Read more…
I can relate my work with My Childhood to H.L. Mencken’s quote. I remember spending my summertime reading My Childhood. It was very slow and difficult – just like work. I spent time going over parts I didn’t get, like you would go over the parts of homework you don’t get. Reading My Childhood can Read more…
Response “Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.” I understand this quote as “Writing fiction has helped me respect Read more…
