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1 month ago | 
incourage.me | Jennifer Lee |Anna Rendell |Becky Keife |Dawn Camp
Our family will visit the cemetery today. Someone from the American Legion will hand us poppies. The pastor will say a few words to those who’ve gathered. And then, we will bow our heads for a moment of silence. No one will speak. The air will fill with birdsong and the sound of flags flapping in the breeze. In that moment, I will pray as I always pray: for peace to rule in hearts everywhere.
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
incourage.me | Anna Rendell |Becky Keife |Dawn Camp |Jennifer Lee
Ask any Midwesterner about “fake spring” and they’ll surely have a story for you about packing away all the coats on a warm day only to have to pull the winter gear back out the next week. While I’m all for a shortened winter, I think these false-start spring days have something to teach us about the spiritual practice of living expectantly — even when we don’t feel particularly hopeful. We brought our newborn son home from the hospital on Easter.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
Eddie Ahn is an environmental attorney and the executive director of the nonprofit Brightline Defense. He is a self-taught artist whose graphic memoir Advocate got released this year. Ahn recently did an email interview with the IE. Jennifer Lee: Your book mentions your time in college helped you get interested in education and community service. What exactly triggered this interest?
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
Set to be released next year on Jan. 21, The Rainfall Market is a dash of fantasy and magical realism reminiscent of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Wizard of Oz, but author You Young-Gwang adds some Korean flair by pouring Dokkaebi, the goblins of Korean folklore, into the mix. Rainfall Market, a world run by Dokkaebi, is located in a decrepit house in a little village in Rainbow Town.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
“I drop the eye in the cupholder. It falls with a soft plink among the coins and bobby pins.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
Hiro Arikawa, the bestselling author of the charming and heartwarming book The Travelling Cat Chronicles, now has a follow-up compendium of short stories called The Goodbye Cat. Like her previous novel, this book is translated by Philip Gabriel, who has translated work for Haruki Murakami, Kenzaburō Ōe, and Senji Kuroi. In these seven stories, Arikawa demonstrates how cats become indelible parts of the family, as their contributions go far and beyond just being cute balls of fur.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
incourage.me | Anna Rendell |Becky Keife |Dawn Camp |Jennifer Lee
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you;bind them around your neck,write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good namein the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to him,and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes;fear the Lord and shun evil.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
Environmental attorney Eddie Ahn has spent his entire professional life advocating for sustainability in underserved and underrepresented communities through the San Francisco nonprofit Brightline Defense since 2009. His dedication to environmental justice activism as its executive director has given him enough clout to serve on three commissions, one of which — the SF Commission on the Environment — he has served as president of since 2022. That is just a small taste of his achievements.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
As someone who has only read Korean novels in English translation, I have lately been sensing a rising trend towards whimsical stories that until now seemed nonexistent: whimsical, slice-of-life stories that seem to promote self-healing. I had seen plenty of these types of books in translated Japanese works. They were always a delight to read and could be called a guilty pleasure, but they were not something I had really come across for Korean works.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
iexaminer.org | Jennifer Lee
The Fox Wife is Yangsze Choo’s third book following her New York Times bestseller The Night Tiger. Like past books, The Fox Wife delves into fantasy, magical realism, and historical fiction using cultural lore, literature, and mythology as a foundation for her stories. For this book, Choo uses foxes from Chinese mythology, common in East and Southeast Asian cultures. Foxes have a dubious status in Chinese mythology.
