This is not the first Arizona road sign I’ve posted from my 2015 trip. I really liked their use of Star Wars to peddle traffic safety messages. Maybe they should have tried something like this to teach people about pandemic?
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Seattle Dance Collective Bridges the Distance With Home
Against all odds, Seattle Dance Collective is back for a second season with five new works. The first of these, Home by Penny Saunders, premiered on July 2. It was as artistically engaging as its backstory is bizarre. And in contrast to the challenges that had to be overcome to create it, there has never been a ballet with lower barriers for its audience. Home is free to view online.
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Pink Mama
Marketing is culturally specific. The name of this shop, Pink Mama, raised my eyebrows and made me wonder just what kind of variety of sweets they sold. Or maybe my thoughts were primed in a certain direction because of the classy hotel we’d been stuck at the night before.
But it was really just a dessert shop in the international terminal of the Shanghai airport, selling a variety of cakes and pastries.
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Amnesia, The Ultimate K-Drama Trope
My first experience of K-drama was the wonderful series, Her Private Life. What struck me most about the show was the intelligent writing and the emotionally mature characters. So the overall impression the show left on me was that of a very realistic, down-to-earth story about balancing work, romantic love, and personal passions. But, actually, there was so much amnesia.
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Back from Break – Pandemic Homeschool Diaries
{Well, this is annoying. While working on the blog last weekend, I noticed this post, which I wrote at the end of April. It was scheduled to publish May 1, but for due to some mysterious technical glitch, it didn’t. Well, I hate to waste a blog post after taking the time to write it. So here it is now. Sorry about that.}
Coming back from a remarkably slothful spring break, in the sixth week since the school buildings closed, we entered our fifth week of pandemic homeschool instruction. Nobody was particularly excited to get back to work, and for the most part we skated by on the minimum effort. But it wasn’t all drudgery. We did some interesting things.
