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As the mother of a teenager, it is perhaps inevitable that Korean pop culture would become a critical component of my media consumption. The year 2019 began with my introduction to Webtoon and my headfirst dive into manwha. The year ended with a nearly OCD buy-in of K-Drama.
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When my daughter got our first pet lionhead rabbit, she was on a soccer team. She named the messy little animal after the famous soccer player, Lionel Messi. Back when we still thought rabbits could be fun, we tried to find ways to play with Lionhead Messi. The moment captured in the photo is the only time that Messi approached a soccer ball – or any other offered toy. It’s as close as he ever came to living up to the name Messi – or, for that matter, the name pet.
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It has been ten weeks since the schools closed, and all talk of establishing a “new normal” has died down, replaced the daily grind of normal pandemic homeschooling. I didn’t even have anything new to write about last week as we just keep on truckin – in place. This week, though, I’m starting to get some end of the school year vibes as some things start wrapping up and planning for next year gets started.
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Ironically, as a person who works in words, I rarely listen to the lyrics in music. In heavy metal, the vocals are usually textural. In rap, they’re too prominent and distracting. But most music means to tell a story. And sometimes the stories are really good.
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When my daughter was in the first grade, her teacher used this worksheet to teach them story structure. Never mind that I never had a lesson in story structure in any grade. Even studying story as an adult, this is still one of the most efficient ways to diagram a narrative that I’ve seen. I’ve hung onto the worksheet because I think it’s useful.