I don’t live in a remarkable house and therefore haven’t treated it very well. My kids are free to play in any room and we just wait each Monday for our cleaners to straighten things out. Because of the mess and the clutter, I never feel like fresh flowers or other nice things go … [Read more...]
High Noon in Carefree, Arizona
It's hard to believe we were in warm and sunny Phoenix just a week ago and now we're shivering in the cold and brushing off the snow from yesterday in Chicago. One of the many highlights of our trip was going out for tea in Carefree, Arizona, one of the first planned communities … [Read more...]
Agency or upbringing in a cross-cultural marriage
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...]
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...]
Ringing in the Year of the Dog
Last Saturday the kids and I celebrated the second day of Chinese New Year with friends at Chicago's Peninsula Hotel. We've been going there for afternoon tea around Chinese New Year for the last few years, but this is the first year we've been there for their lion dance. The … [Read more...]
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