It’s still delicious even if I’m only getting a quarter of a whole shrimp and paying more. These are the times.
Here We Go Again…
This time we were on a family trip visiting an art museum. This question and its implications never get old.
Saturday Morning Cartoons …
just doesn’t hit the same when you’re not the kid anymore. Also, for the first time in a very long time, I did not have […]
Sibling Talk
You were born here or you were so little when you got here that you don’t remember not ever having been here. And so, you […]
A Test of Patience
No one ever tells you how challenging it can be with your parents as they age. Or, maybe they do but it doesn’t sink in […]
We All Have Standards
…even 8 year olds. A kiddo once visited our apartment and asked where our other bathroom was. Umm…we have one – just the one. I […]
It’s Not Fine. You’re Not Fine.
Interesting how the roles become reversed when you become the mother to your mother and your mother becomes the foot-stomping five-year-old you. In the June […]
Death by 1,000 Guilt Trips
Life with my super old school, traditional Chinese mother who has experienced so much generational trauma that she can’t even comprehend or process it. It’s […]
Stop Getting Fat and Eat More Chocolate
Explore the chaotic energy of mothers and how their “constructive criticism” is received. Published in the May 8, 2026 issue of the Sampan Newspaper: