Twenty-three years ago today, I got married for the first time. And it was under conditional terms.There has been so much in the news now about women’s agency and why we don’t just leave when things go bad. But it’s not that simple, especially when we’re not talking about … [Read more...]
Book of the week—Half a Yellow Sun
My friend and book pen pal (where we send each other more books than letters) Christine sent me this book last year and it’d been on my to read shelf forever, it seemed, even though I’d read Americanah by the same author almost as soon as Christine sent me that. I guess I got … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
It’s been nice to get out of the cold and into the warm Arizona desert this week. All good things must come to an end, but here’s to hoping for spring to reach Chicago sometime soon! … [Read more...]
A visit to the Museum of Chinese in America
Earlier this month when I took two of my kids to visit my first-born, I took the little ones to the Museum of Chinese in America, a place I'd wanted to visit for a long time but somehow hadn't gotten around to until then. It's in an unassuming building, so if I didn't notice the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Little Red Guard
I read this book earlier this year, just before the Lunar New Year, and wasn't sure I'd be as captivated by another Cultural Revolution memoir as I've been in the past. You know when you've read so much about one topic that you can't possibly think there's anything more one can … [Read more...]
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