High school students in China understand the burden of expectation. As this article points out, 9.4 million of them compete for the most coveted prize in China -- a spot in one of the nation's top universities. So great is their burden that the entire country takes extreme measures to allow students to perform their … Continue reading The Burden of Expectation
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On Knowing There Could Be Better Work Down the Line
"Hemingway Never Did This" by Charles Bukowski I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a train and that they never were recovered. I can't match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3-page poem upon this computer and through my lack of diligence and practice and by … Continue reading On Knowing There Could Be Better Work Down the Line