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Heart2Heart: Becoming a Stranger in the Native Place
Having lived in the US longer than Korea, my visit to Korea this summer presented contextual gaps. For example, shop-keepers noticed my...
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2015 Purpose Prize Fellow Young Lee Hertig
The Purpose Prize was created to demonstrate that older people comprise an undiscovered, and still largely untapped, continent of...
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Heart2Heart: Living in Virtual Reality
Although I am also pulled into its conveniences, I am concerned about the dark side of the digital takeover. The revolutionary launching...
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Heart2Heart: We See What We Believe
Seeing the soaring bloody violence rates this year feels like watching a series of old western cowboy reruns. Heightened by unusually...
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Japanese Fathers by Bill Watanabe
My father was a little man – that is, short in stature; he stood barely over 5 feet tall but he was a strong Issei male figure in our...
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You Don’t Know Jack by Bill Watanabe
A number of years ago, when I was the Executive Director of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), we had a Nisei volunteer named Jack....
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Heart2Heart: The Joy of Mentoring
Teaching without having to grade is so much fun. In the last two summers, I have devoted the past two summers to ISAAC’s summer...
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