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justdoingmything.com: June 2012
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Sunday, June 24, 2012. Hong Kong Files by guest blogger Brian Leiken. Enjoy my son Brian's first impressions of Hong Kong. Here are the first two travel entries:. After reading his two Hong Kong novels,. I have always wanted to visit Hong Kong. I picked up. Eight years later, I'm finally here. Most signs are in both English and Cantonese, and most of the residents are at least semi-fluent in English. Many of the names ret...
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justdoingmything.com: August 2011
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Sunday, August 21, 2011. Sweet Ride: Discovering a New World. At 10 I inherited an oversized boy’s bike from my cousin. It was officially my first bike since we couldn’t afford the popular Schwinns of the day. It made me happy to have my own "wheels." I cleaned and painted the secondhand bike red and even added a silver thunderbolt to the fender to make it look fast and ready to roll. I was breaking the rules by leaving my ne...
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justdoingmything.com: October 2011
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Wednesday, October 26, 2011. What I Learned from a Cockroach. Like most people, I find cockroaches disgusting and repulsive, but one cockroach taught me a lesson just at the time I needed it. I'm afraid of bugs.always have been. I remember them knocking and buzzing at the screen as I tried to sleep on a hot "unairconditioned" night in Chicago when I was a young girl. Suddenly a storm blew in, the sky blackened, and lightening...
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justdoingmything.com: What I Learned from a Cockroach
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Wednesday, October 26, 2011. What I Learned from a Cockroach. Like most people, I find cockroaches disgusting and repulsive, but one cockroach taught me a lesson just at the time I needed it. I'm afraid of bugs.always have been. I remember them knocking and buzzing at the screen as I tried to sleep on a hot "unairconditioned" night in Chicago when I was a young girl. Suddenly a storm blew in, the sky blackened, and lightening...
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justdoingmything.com: Graduation Flashback: Then and Now
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Sunday, November 13, 2011. Graduation Flashback: Then and Now. As I watched the college students march proudly in procession into the stadium, I nostalgically remembered the excitement of that day in my life years ago at my undergrad college graduation from the University of Illinois in Urbana. As they came down the stairs, some shouted out; one did a cartwheel, and another did a victory dance. A college degree was my ticket ...
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justdoingmything.com: Hong Kong Files #3 & 4 by Brian Leiken, guest blogger
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Saturday, July 7, 2012. Hong Kong Files #3 and 4 by Brian Leiken, guest blogger. Hong Kong Files #3. Today I decide to meet up with Kevin and take the ferry across Victoria Harbor to Central Hong Kong, the business district spurting with skyscrapers. 8220;Please sir, would you like to try a suit? He recognizes me, a second later he looks embarrassed. “Oh, so sorry sir. I will see you later, yes? Makes you wonder what the YMCA...
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justdoingmything.com: Hollywood Arsonist (It’s LA!) by Brian Leiken
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Thursday, January 26, 2012. Hollywood Arsonist (It’s LA! This year the 2012 New Year’s celebration didn’t start on December 31st, but on the 30th. Around 2 in the morning I awaken to the clamor of sirens as an army of fire trucks rush up Fairfax Avenue, shrieking past my apartment like wailing infants desperate for attention. Do I have anything to fight off zombies? 1 He didn’t appear to have any monetary motive, making...
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justdoingmything.com: June 2011
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Thursday, June 23, 2011. A Different Kind of Tree Hugger. I was having a bad dream and woke up to the sound of a buzz saw to discover the mangled corpse of chopped wood chunks and strewn branches, the remains of the beautiful tree that protected my balcony. The former golf course owners sold the land to a developer; and the tree, a victim of drought and greed, lost its caretaker. I have a special kinship with trees. We even d...
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justdoingmything.com: One Soldier's Story: "A Dignified Transfer" by guest blogger Jorge Duarte
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Sweet, bitter, sugary and salty stories. Welcome to my world, past and present. Sunday, December 18, 2011. One Soldier's Story: "A Dignified Transfer" by guest blogger Jorge Duarte. On September 11, 2001, America witnessed a terrifying nightmare. We all felt a sense of helplessness as we watched it firsthand on national television. Preparing for school, I began to watch the morning news, wondering what happened and trying to figure out what I was seeing on the screen. My decision to join the military beg...