Alyssa and I ate the sweet fruit (above), wondering what it was. A citrus fruit, it was smaller than a tangerine and much sweeter. A miniature tangerine? We ate and we pondered. Alyssa figured it out: Mandarin oranges! The real thing. We had not recognized them because we had always seen them in cans.
I was a professor of curriculum and instruction at East Tennessee State University and am now in emeritus status. Currently, I teach English composition part-time at George Mason University. I have taught in Cincinnati, Turkey, China and the Czech Republic.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Strange Fruit
Alyssa and I ate the sweet fruit (above), wondering what it was. A citrus fruit, it was smaller than a tangerine and much sweeter. A miniature tangerine? We ate and we pondered. Alyssa figured it out: Mandarin oranges! The real thing. We had not recognized them because we had always seen them in cans.
Alyssa and I ate the sweet fruit (above), wondering what it was. A citrus fruit, it was smaller than a tangerine and much sweeter. A miniature tangerine? We ate and we pondered. Alyssa figured it out: Mandarin oranges! The real thing. We had not recognized them because we had always seen them in cans.
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well "can" you beat that!!
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