June 2023 Newsletter
Leonard Chan
Executive Editor
Events
July 7, 2023: Medaka No Gakko (we'll be there)
Palo Alto Buddhist Temple, 2751 Louis Rd, Palo Alto, CA
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July 8-9, 2023: San Jose Obon Festival (we'll be there)
San Jose Buddhist Church, 640 N 5th St San Jose, CA
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July 23-28, 2023: Zephyr Pt. Lake Tahoe Fellowship Retreat (we'll be there)
Zephyr Pt, NV
If you have an event that you would like us to mention and or to participate in, please feel free to let us know.
Summer Trips for 2023
Part of our Summer Travel Series
By Leonard Chan, Cynthia Chin-Lee, and Sharon Chan
It’s time for our 2023 installment of our AAPI related summer travel series (See our prior year articles for our past suggestions - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2021, and 2022). As note in last year’s article, our older articles in the series have a lot of broken links. So before you click on any of them just try doing a Google search for the place. I believe most of the places still exist and are worth checking out, especially the AAPI museums. They can use your support.
Thoughts on Being an Asian American Woman Writer
By Cynthia Chin-Lee, author of Almond Cookies and Dragon Well Tea, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World, and other books
(This essay appeared in the book The Lemon Tree: Artists' & Writers' Personal Journeys of Creativity, edited by Nitza Agam, who has given us permission to use it for our newsletter. Thank you Nitza.)
1934, Baltimore, MD
Someone was knocking on the door.
Then seven years old, Nancy was folding clean diapers for her mother, but her father grabbed her arm and shoved her into the closet. Her father warned, “Get in there and be quiet!”
He then calmly proceeded to open the front door and chat with the local truant officer. The officer’s eyes narrowed as he said, “We heard you have a school-age child? She should be attending school. That’s the law.” Nancy’s father invited the officer to look around the house. Only small children were playing in the backyard, all too young to go to school.
While Nancy should have been going to school, she was held back so she could help take care of her younger siblings. She was not allowed to attend school until her brother, a year and a half younger, was old enough to go to school. By that time, it would be useful to have her walk with him as her parents cared about educating him, but not her.
Nancy was my mother, a talented visual artist and a wonderful storyteller...
Featured Books
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Children's Books
Middle Grade Chapter Books and Young Adults
General Literature
Folktales and Language Learning
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