Category Archives: Values of Life

Who Will Carry Grandma Around?

On how much the families relied on the help of these foreign hired household helpers to care for the aging elderly population, translated… Today, finally, Dun’s turn came to get the vaccination. As she’d fed grandma, and taken grandma to … Continue reading

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Father, Remembered, a Poem

How wisdoms come with, age, translated… The Moments that Felt Too Real Came & Went I’d Owned, Too Many to, Count Those Features After the Rain The Hills in the Memories The Species of Locally-Grown Mangoes The Tracks of the … Continue reading

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I’m Sure, that Both Taiwan & China Understand the Lessons from the Wars

We can use the conflicts of Russia and Ukraine to reflect on the pressures between Taiwan and China here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… Since last December, Russian sent the troops to the Ukrainian border, for the primary … Continue reading

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This is How Finland Does its Schools, Stop Testing for Understanding or Levels of Achievements

What we should, lean, towards, in, education, but do we?  HECK no, we’d, returned, back to the, one-test-determines our futures means from before, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… The new curriculum set up in Taiwan stressed the core … Continue reading

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Dementia & Her Cat

Dementia got a cat, or rather, it’s the cat, that started, owning her… Dementia lives alone on her own, and, longed to have someone there, to talk to, one day, a cat, came into her home, and started, squatting there.  … Continue reading

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Heading Out Ten Minutes Earlier

A WAKEUP call you’re desperately, in need of, and thankfully you, took it!  Translated… My neighbor traveled to Alishan, brought back some foods as gifts to me.  As we were chatting, she’d noted how the clock in my living room … Continue reading

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Exercise, a Time of Conversations with Our Own, Bodies

Some of us just, aren’t, agile enough to do sports here, and there’s, no need, to push it!  Translated… We’d often gotten ask, on homeschooling, how do we socialize the kids, without getting them into the groups of their, peers?  … Continue reading

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Off to School Later Means Going to Bed Later, Stop Spoiling the Children

Yeah, didn’t see THAT coming, did you, officials setting up the rules in the Department of Education?  Of course N-O-T!  How this policy had, SHOT itself in the FOOT, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The Department of Education announced … Continue reading

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Truth or Dare, a Lesson on Ethics in the Courthouse

The conversations from a trip they took as a whole family, with the mother being a court justice, the father, an attorney, and two children who are “groomed” in the legal backgrounds of their, upbringing, translated… During the New Year’s … Continue reading

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Using the Long-Term Care Provisions to Help the Separate Families to Gain the Required Skills to Care for Elderly Who Can’t Take Care of Themselves

The mindset of the family members must change, to not think, that if their elderly loved ones is being looked after by professionals, then, they wouldn’t have to put in the time to care for their elderly families, off of … Continue reading

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