The Joy of Learning to Read (Knitting Patterns)
My daughter wearing one of the hats I knitted for her after I learned to read American knitting patterns. I just began a new knitting project the other day--a hat [...]
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Nov, 2017
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Aug, 2016
The Secret to Learning a New Language
Today I'm taking a break from the daily August Break topics because today's is "secret," and I just don't feel like I have anything good to share here. Unless, of [...]
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Aug, 2015
On Learning a New Language
Learning a new language means frantically running around in my mind snatching at the coat tails of words I might now, hoping to catch a consonant-vowel combination that hopefully means [...]
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May, 2012
Guest Blog by Sun Hee Yoon: Writing as Young Mom
Sun Hee and her daughter in Montreal last summer Today is guest blog exchange day on the Blogathon, and I pleased to welcome Sun Hee Yoon, a fellow memoir writer. [...]
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Oct, 2011
Bilingual in More Than One Way
Chunky sweaters are all the rage this fall, and a display of shawl-collared knobby jackets reminded me of one I knit when I was a teenager, when my friends and [...]