Overheard at the Wright Household
Juss: "You mean the ancient Egyptians worshiped insects?" Mom: "Yes." Juss, in a tone of astonished disgusted. "That’s even stupider than worshiping a cow!"
Volunteer Week Success!
Vounteer (apparently I had vacation on my mind when I wrote this.) Week was short but sweet. On Wed, the kids gave a dress rehersal performance to Uncle Law and Ping-PIng loaded QQ for the local Chinese Restaurant owner. (They gave us free food. I hope that doesn’t disqualify Volunteering. ;-) On Thursday, Orville, Ping-Ping, and Juss put…
Note: There will be no Wright’s Writing Corner post next week, as we will be on vacation. Or you can go here for a picture of Death By Cotton Candy Recently, I took a delightful writing class, which I have mentioned before. But there was one thing that came up in the class that…
Volunteer Week
Once again, it is Volunteer Week. We kicked it off today with trash collection. All the kids did a sterling job. I wish I had brought a camera to take pictures of Ping-Ping and Roland carrying a bag between them and working together. I was very impressed that my somewhat fastidious daughter did not complain.
Looking for a Poet
I realize it is unlikely that even the Internet can solve this one, but… I am looking for the author of a poem I read in the 90s. I am nearly certain that it was in an issue of Absolute Magnitude. John remembers that, too, but we asked the editor once and he did not remember…
Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blog by Merry Muhsman
Writing friend Merry Muhsman guest blogs with this delightful piece on Encouragement. My cousin’s daughter trembled in my arms, bobbing up and down as the wave rolled by us. “What’s the worst that could happen?” Her skis split apart, even as I wrapped my arms beneath her legs and pulled her close to…
The Last Airbender
Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of a friend, we took the family to see The Last Airbender, a movie we have been waiting to see for several years now. When we got to the counter, the price for the tickets was unimaginable. We could have gotten in to see God for cheaper–there was a $4…
Adoption In China
People asked why the wait for children from China is so long, why there are less children. Here is one answer from: http://chinaadoptiontalk.blogspot.com/2010/07/amy-eldridge-of-lwb-speaks.html Why the significant change? First, she said, there has been a growth in more modern attitudes about girls. It is really only in the rural areas that the social preference for boys remains. …
Dexter Wright?
My youngest son, Juss, is more outgoing than the other children (in America. Ping-Ping was more outgoing still in China and at camp.) He has been joining groups of neighborhood kids in an effort to become friends with them, but alas all the children are either too old or too young. Still, he’s been trying hard,…
Jingo Bill
One of the first people my daughter bonded with here in America is her godfather, Uncle Bill. For those of you who have not met him, he’s a gentle fire giant…a big fellow with long long red hair that he wears in a braid and long, chest-lenght red beard. Quite early on, she started calling…