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I have written educational articles based on best teaching strategies, curricula for churches schools, and college classes, and done presentations at conferences national and international on cross-cultural communication and teaching. In eight different years, I trained teachers of English in remote areas of China. A series based on a common first question in northern China for a visitor is, Did You Eat? The first book in the series, China Sweet and Sour is out in 2025 spring. The second book China Spicy and Salty will be out in Nov. 2025.

I am on FB as Author Virginia Heslinga and also on a Business page, time2create.info and an individual page Virginia Heslinga.

Grace Interlaced, presents a memoir of a fire that happened at night in a hou I have written educational articles based on best teaching strategies, curricula for churches schools, and college classes, and done presentations at conferences national and international on cross-cultural communication and teaching. In eight different years, I trained teachers of English in remote areas of China. A series based on a common first question in northern China for a visitor is, Did You Eat? The first book in the series, China Sweet and Sour is out in 2025 spring. The second book China Spicy and Salty will be out in Nov. 2025.

I am on FB as Author Virginia Heslinga and also on a Business page, time2create.info and an individual page Virginia Heslinga.

Grace Interlaced, presents a memoir of a fire that happened at night in a house where a 12-year-old babysitter (me) took care of 3 boys, 8, 7, and 2. We might all have died. 3 survived.
My historical novel, Wounded Dove, reveals the turn of the century, 19th to 20th struggles of a young family from Denmark who settled in Worcester, MA. The polio epidemic of the early 1900s hit their family hard. Overcoming is a way of life, but even when life seems to even out and offer safety, heartbreaks and a predator require courageous action.
The Did You Eat series first book, China Sweet and Sour: 2004, invited readers to journey with an American teacher who is unhappy in job changes, angry at God, and looking for a constructive outlet, the wilder the better so she signs up to teach in a remote area of China. Beyond the Great Wall are stories of missteps, laughter, and transformation.
Virginia Heslinga serves as an Associate professor of Humanities for Anna Maria College of Paxton, Massachusetts in their online programs. She has worked for more than four decades teaching students, ranging from pre-school to grad school, alternative schools to home schools, from Appalachia to Inner Mongolia, Monterrey to Istanbul, face-to-face, hybrid, and online, ASL to ESOL, research, and creative writing. She has also mentored teachers around the United States and globe. ...more

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“I often squashed my emotions; most times it was too painful to reflect on happiness.”
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“I loved the feel of the keys beneath my fingertips and my power to create music.”
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“If the future would have been revealed to me, at that moment, if I could have seen what was ahead for me in that house, would I have changed my mind?”
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“I loved the feel of the keys beneath my fingertips and my power to create music.”
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“I often squashed my emotions; most times it was too painful to reflect on happiness.”
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“Every moment of every day my love for you will grow.
How it started I will never know,
but of one thing I can be sure,
I will be loving you forever more.
Was it because you’re pretty or was it just your smile,
I think it was your kindness that touched my heart a while.”
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