This is 27

This week, #ladyannyeong started jumping up on the couch, something she did often in Korea but hadn’t continued stateside. I think I know how she spends her days now.

Today, my joy is complete. This friends, is an active vinegar mother from my apple cider vinegar experiments that has matured into a hearty mother and more importantly made me a beautiful batch of wine vinegar! Bring on the spinach!

“It was a gesture, she thought, of unequivocal pleasure - pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so.” #mmaramotswe #no1ladiesdetectiveagency #books #truth Reflecting on hurt people and a broken world over lighthearted yet profound fiction.

Today, I became an aunt. What did you do?

#tbt #throwbackthursday #lifewithmike… Our first sputtering break together, before we were married…oh how far we’ve come.

I have read the James Patterson series Maximum Ride since starting work at the Jr. High School.

I then learned that they had been turned into comic books. I’ve never really read comics of Manga’s, but wanted to check it out.

Then, I learned the illustrator was a Korean and this was her first big project and that the books were popular in America and Canada, but she wasn’t really seeing them in Korea (obviously).

But, then I started noticing things within the illustrations that are distinctly Korean and I feel uniquely connected to this series as illustrated by a Korean.

There are no “hahahaha”-s, but rather “kekeke”-s.

And then there’s this illustration.

Which features Pepperos - a famous Korean sweet.

And my heart just smiles.

It’s like I have a secret with the illustrator.

ilovereadingandwriting:

books are the perfect entertainment(via Lizz the Librarian: Book Musings)

Favorite thing about spring break: the anticipation of #reading loads of books.