Learning Chinese to fix the language barrier that leaves parents and son near-strangers. Daniel Chen with his mother, Xiao Juan Liu, and father, Ajun Chen, in their Brooklyn apartment.
Daniel speaks primarily English; his parents speak primarily Shanghainese. What Color is Your Rainbow? DIY Totoro Plush Tutorial : cheek and stitch. 32.9KEmailShare Hello all!
Today, I put together a fun tutorial for you: DIY Totoro Plush Tutorial. It’s a little different than the Totoros I made earlier, but still just as cute. The pattern I created is more simple and the materials are cheap and easy to find. 46 Awesome String Light DIYs For Any Occasion. How To Break Up With A Friend. Feel a familiar itch to break free that you had previously thought only arose in romantic relationships.
The tedium, the emotional drain, the fundamental feeling that this isn’t good for you all abound, but as you are not in some qualified “relationship,” how to go about removing yourself from it seems a vague, unrealistic concept. You’d never before considered having to break things off with a friend, but efforts to find common ground becoming more and more futile, it seems the only thing left to do. Realize, in a moment of profound sadness, how much we actually do have tied up emotionally with our friends, even if we don’t realize it. The things that we experience together, though not bookended by marriage or children or even sex, are such an enormous part of the people we are today.
Life pulls us in different directions, and you realize that having become incompatible with someone is not necessarily a good or bad thing, only a truth of relationships. So, You’re An Adult. How Do You Make Friends Now? Let’s be honest: school is a never-ending merry-go-round of potential friends and relationships.
From pre-school to college, all of the essential ingredients for building lasting, open friendships are all around us at all times. Do The Green Thing: The DIY fridge that runs on dirty water. 3 Reasons to Travel While You're Young. Lacrimosa Chapter 1: Act One: Andante, a harry potter fanfic. Lacrimosa Summary: semi-historical AU.
Only enslaved Mudblood Hermione knows the famous composer Voldemort's darkest secret. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time. 100 Healthy Study Snacks You Should Reach For Instead. November 16th, 2010 Studying can be hard work, and you’ll need some serious brain fuel to get you through acing that exam and breezing through getting your degree.
Yet the foods many students reach for when they’re deep in a study session are often not only unhealthy, but not exactly ideal choices for energy, concentration and boosting your brainpower. Instead of going for salty, sweet or fatty snacks — however satisfying they may be — try these healthy alternatives instead. Your grades, your brain and your waistline will thank you. Instead of Potato Chips. Moon For Sale: A Confession. When I was young, I thought that I would be able to breathe underwater.
Water was, to me, just a thin film that covered an area of air, until I decided to fill my bathroom sink with water. In the end, I ended up inhaling water and figured out that water takes up space and is not just a thin film that sat above air. When I was a bit older living in California, I held on to the side of a swimming pool and took a lap around the pool until my hands slipped and I fell into the deep end and when I woke up, I was on the floor beside the pool coughing up water. I am scared of swimming. I joke sometimes about death. I am not afraid of eating alone. Ten gemstones that are rarer than diamond. M.guardian.co.uk. A palliative nurse has recorded the top five regrets of the dying.
Photograph: Montgomery Martin/Alamy There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives.
Soraya Chemaly: 10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. Is Nuts. This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they "naturally" go into labor.
Nostalgia For Everything. December 21, 1992|By ANDREI CODRESCU This time of the year for some reason I get filled with nostalgia like a Jules Verne balloon.
I'm like Marcel Proust who smelled a cookie and couldn't stop remembering. Wood fires are my cookie. I remember walking through an old square in my hometown in Romania, late fall 1958, kicking leaves with my feet and feeling as nostalgic as I do now for something I remembered then. I remember sitting on the step of the Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral in Rome in 1965 eating an apple while everything turned to nostalgic gold around me.