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Explaining America to Chinese Teenagers

Introducing Chinese teenagers to America!

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Exchanging the Norm for the Foreign: Brazil

One day we exchanged our normal life for a foreign one with a foreign exchange student from Brazil. It began innocently enough, both times, with a phone call–but isn’t that how life changing things often occur? A routine day suddenly explodes into a change that alters your life and rearranges your schedule  the very next day. Fortunately, we’re flexible, which…
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Getting By with Lots of Help from Friends!

Friends are integral to my writing. They provided stories–which I sometimes steal. They encourage me, too. I couldn’t enjoy the writing life without them. Editor friends I like collaborating with editors who know my story well. Arguments about plot ideas and words invigorate me and often make me laugh. However, my editor will not be the first person to read…
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How Should We Look at the Olympics?

I spent the summer of 1976 in Switzerland at a house far up on an alp with little TV reception. As an Olympics fan, I was disappointed I wouldn’t get to watch the games as frequently as we did at home, but I was optimistic.  Afterall, surely the Swiss and the Italian family members would want to cheer for their…
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Visiting the Olympic Games Opening:1984

Many years ago, a family member won tickets to the opening games of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. My mother, who was visiting at the time, told me about this surprise and added an interesting twist. “He doesn’t want to go,” she said. “The seats are good ones–$300 a piece. But he thinks it will be too much…
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Beautiful Civil War dresses

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Civil War Dresses: Of Corset Hurts

How much thought have you given to a corset? It’s challenging to write an historical novel if you’re not sure what the clothes are like. How many of us have read Gone with the Wind and wondered if Scarlett really could have an 18 inch waist and still breathe? The answer is probably not. Recent Civil War events in both…
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Michelle Ule is a bestselling author of historical novellas, an essayist, blogger and the biographer of Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World's Bestselling Devotional.

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