Ahhh, Rainbow Pie on the top of that stack of your books, Linh! *Sighing* Really miss Joe. I love reading both you guys' writing.
Glad you took a photo of these books. Now I know what to order from the library for the next few months (will be on maternity leave with baby number four starting in early November...so I might get a chance to read a few titles)!
Hey, Linh...my 16 year-old son lives in Dillsburg, PA at the moment. I wonder if you've ever gotten a chance to go through that area. I've seen your Harrisburg photos (not too far from Dillsburg). Harrisburg's really gone downhill since the mid-90's, which is around the last time I got to visit that area.
I know Pennsylvania's a big place...just curious if you'd ever been through Dillsburg, or nearby. Oh, and also the Wellsboro area. My son's dad's folks live up there. That's all farm area up there...dirt roads and whatnot.
I go where the cheap bus or train takes me. The last time I was in the Harrisburg area, I took a MegaBus that cost me all of 50 cents! It was some weird promotion. I got to check out Steelton, yet another of our struggling, post-industrial town. I don't know anything about Dillsburg, and I would only be able to visit it if I could walk there from Harrisburg.
I wonder what your son thinks of the economy. Chuck's older son, Dan, is 21 years old, and he simply rejects his dad's bleak assessment of the future. Just starting out in life, he has to be optimistic.
My son, Justin, out there in Dillsburg, has a keen sense that the economy (and the larger "culture") is a wreck. (The economy out there has been largely depressed for decades, as you know). He oscillates between standard teen angst and a broader, darker sense of "it's kind of useless." He's pretty astute for his age, although I get concerned he borders on "doomer-esque" thinking. It rips me up inside, Linh, because he knows what's coming down the pike--and as optimistic as I try to be (suggesting avenues he could pursue education and employment-wise one day)--Justin KNOWS what's coming down the pike.
He wants to drop out of high school, get his GED, and leap immediately into community college out here in Dallas. I'm kind of biased; I think the guy is brilliant...but--despite the crappy high school he's attending (packed to the gills with what he calls "zombies:" the students and employees)--I strongly encourage him to stay the course and get his high school diploma.
Justin wants to leave the U.S. I am proud to say he's been studying Korean and Japanese on his own, and impressing natives with his language skills. To what this will lead, we'll see.
If he stays where he is in Pennsylvania, maybe his dad can get him an internship at Level 3 Communications. His dad does VERY well working there. But, who knows, Linh? Justin's brilliant in all manner of IT/hacking "stuff," but his interest is getting in on this "Anonymous" stuff and "fighting the power." (Inherited his mom's Quixotic genes).
*Sighing heavily* I worry, Linh. I worry so much. I think my husband and I were crazy to bring three more additional little people into this declining world. Makes me want to break into sobs.
I hope our kids do better than just survive...but sometimes I think that's all we're doing.
Cindy
P.S. - You're right...Dillsburg is waaaay out of the way, walking-wise, I think from Dillsburg...LOL!
P.P.S. - I hope Chuck's older son is right...but I think his dad may know better.
Justin sounds like he's smart, level-headed and enterprising enough to survive these dark years ahead. Anyone who can study Korean and Japanese on his own has got be brilliant.
I have an Italian friend, Niccolo, who speaks, reads and writes English, French, Spanish and Japanese. Niccolo has been working in Tokyo for nearly a decade, but the Fukushima mess may make him leave before too long. A sommelier most of his working life, he's now thinking of becoming a yoga teacher back in his native Tuscany.
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Ahhh, Rainbow Pie on the top of that stack of your books, Linh! *Sighing* Really miss Joe. I love reading both you guys' writing.
Glad you took a photo of these books. Now I know what to order from the library for the next few months (will be on maternity leave with baby number four starting in early November...so I might get a chance to read a few titles)!
Hey, Linh...my 16 year-old son lives in Dillsburg, PA at the moment. I wonder if you've ever gotten a chance to go through that area. I've seen your Harrisburg photos (not too far from Dillsburg). Harrisburg's really gone downhill since the mid-90's, which is around the last time I got to visit that area.
I know Pennsylvania's a big place...just curious if you'd ever been through Dillsburg, or nearby. Oh, and also the Wellsboro area. My son's dad's folks live up there. That's all farm area up there...dirt roads and whatnot.
Take care, Linh. *HUG*
Cindy
Hi Cindy,
I go where the cheap bus or train takes me. The last time I was in the Harrisburg area, I took a MegaBus that cost me all of 50 cents! It was some weird promotion. I got to check out Steelton, yet another of our struggling, post-industrial town. I don't know anything about Dillsburg, and I would only be able to visit it if I could walk there from Harrisburg.
I wonder what your son thinks of the economy. Chuck's older son, Dan, is 21 years old, and he simply rejects his dad's bleak assessment of the future. Just starting out in life, he has to be optimistic.
Linh
Hi Linh,
My son, Justin, out there in Dillsburg, has a keen sense that the economy (and the larger "culture") is a wreck. (The economy out there has been largely depressed for decades, as you know). He oscillates between standard teen angst and a broader, darker sense of "it's kind of useless." He's pretty astute for his age, although I get concerned he borders on "doomer-esque" thinking. It rips me up inside, Linh, because he knows what's coming down the pike--and as optimistic as I try to be (suggesting avenues he could pursue education and employment-wise one day)--Justin KNOWS what's coming down the pike.
He wants to drop out of high school, get his GED, and leap immediately into community college out here in Dallas. I'm kind of biased; I think the guy is brilliant...but--despite the crappy high school he's attending (packed to the gills with what he calls "zombies:" the students and employees)--I strongly encourage him to stay the course and get his high school diploma.
Justin wants to leave the U.S. I am proud to say he's been studying Korean and Japanese on his own, and impressing natives with his language skills. To what this will lead, we'll see.
If he stays where he is in Pennsylvania, maybe his dad can get him an internship at Level 3 Communications. His dad does VERY well working there. But, who knows, Linh? Justin's brilliant in all manner of IT/hacking "stuff," but his interest is getting in on this "Anonymous" stuff and "fighting the power." (Inherited his mom's Quixotic genes).
*Sighing heavily* I worry, Linh. I worry so much. I think my husband and I were crazy to bring three more additional little people into this declining world. Makes me want to break into sobs.
I hope our kids do better than just survive...but sometimes I think that's all we're doing.
Cindy
P.S. - You're right...Dillsburg is waaaay out of the way, walking-wise, I think from Dillsburg...LOL!
P.P.S. - I hope Chuck's older son is right...but I think his dad may know better.
Dillsburg is way out of the way from Harrisburg, I mean...LOL! I'm obviously repeating myself a lot in these posts.
My brain...at the age of 42...and eight months pregnant...well, I don't have to tell you I'm foggy!
Hi Cindy,
Justin sounds like he's smart, level-headed and enterprising enough to survive these dark years ahead. Anyone who can study Korean and Japanese on his own has got be brilliant.
I have an Italian friend, Niccolo, who speaks, reads and writes English, French, Spanish and Japanese. Niccolo has been working in Tokyo for nearly a decade, but the Fukushima mess may make him leave before too long. A sommelier most of his working life, he's now thinking of becoming a yoga teacher back in his native Tuscany.
Linh
Linh,
I really hope there's a solution for the Fukushima crisis for Niccolo's--and all of our sakes.
Deeply admire polyglots...AND folks who know their wines!
Cindy :)
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