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Ivette Valez Grundy – The Angel
As many of you know, my daughter Yumiko is a ballet dancer. She recently purchased a new pair of toe shoes – those awful contraptions that look so beautiful when a dancer knows how to go up “on pointe” with them. The problem with toe shoes is they are not only a pain to…
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A New Camera!!
It’s been a while since the last blog. All is pretty good here on the home front. Ken is doing well. Yumiko is too – lots of ballet. And I broke down and got a NEW super duper camera this weekend – a Nikon D700. It is a beautiful machine. I have not quite…
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Shin Zen Bi
Well I’m back from the Ballet Parent Teacher Conference. I got there just in time at 3:30. There was a long line of Japanese women winding their way upstairs to the second floor. I got in line with everybody else and finally got to my seat. There were easily 2oo women in the room.…
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Parent Teacher Meeting in Japanese and a Few Flowers
It’s Sunday afternoon. Yumiko is back at ballet practice and then she has a play practice at school. I am supposed to go to a parent teacher meeting at her ballet school at 3:30. I am going to go, but it could be a little difficult as I speak no Japanese and the teachers…