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Kook-Wha Koh
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Oct 02
My Little Girl
What follows is a well constructed memoir piece that looks at the interactions of two people… After several years of marriage, Tim still did not have any children, even though he wished for them. One day at the Hacienda, a Mexican restaurant, Tim and I had a quick lunch. He had a chimichanga and …
Sep 01
Orchids
“Oh, no, the orchids died again.” I almost cried as soon as I saw the white and purple orchid pots in the gray room. I threw my heavy winter coat on the kitchen chair and dashed to the orchid pots on the glass table in the middle of the gray room and carefully touched the …
Aug 01
The First Employee at Chrysan Industries
One Saturday in November 1977, I was bending over the sink in the tiny lab cleaning the beakers for the next experiments. “Bang, bang.“ Loud knocking sounded on the front door of the plant from outside on Mt. Elliot Street. Mmm, on Saturday morning? I wasn’t expecting anyone today. Wiping my hands on paper towels, …
Jul 01
Stanley and Lucy
Spring is the time that the Canadian geese are visiting in the Metro West Industrial Park in Plymouth, Michigan. Since Chrysan has the biggest front lawn on Keel Street in the industrial park, naturally we have more geese as guests who were looking for worms on the lawn. Occasionally I had to make a sudden …
Jun 01
Kwang’s Game with Groundhogs
This story shows Kwang’s, my husband, tenacious efforts to get rid of groundhogs in our back yard and win over their territory that they had before we moved in. On August 13, 2001 we moved into our new house at the Northville Golf Course, Northville, Michigan, that is located between Five and Six Mile Roads. …