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The producer for this exploration is Hannah Schaefer. Hannah is a reporter at a Medina, Ohio-area newspaper. She graduated from the University of Toledo in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in writing and a minor in communication. For now, Hannah lives the good life at home with her parents, while planning her June 2008 wedding. Hannah comes from a proud family of plumbers. Her dad, Paul, taught her the first poem she ever learned: “I’m not the plumber, I’m just the plumber’s daughter, but maybe I could help you out by turning off the water.” DelMio is Hannah’s first non-newspaper gig.

Hannah’s blog:

In “The Secret to Health,” Byrne says when we listen to people talk about their illness, we are “asking for it” and will only draw illness to ourselves. We’re to change the conversation to “good things.”

I wonder what my mom would think if I changed the subject on her. I think I might try it. She probably won’t be offended, unless I tell her I’m changing the subject to protect myself from future illness.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.