Tweet May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It’s a time to celebrate the history, culture and contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the US. Interestingly, May was chosen as the month for this commemoration to mark the immigration of the first Japanese to the US on May 7, 1843 and to mark the completion [...]
Tweet 1991 As a child, I was extremely academic. Good grades in school was part of my identity. Every year I was a straight A student and I had plenty of scholar awards to show for it. Why wouldn’t I be academic? I’m an Asian-American after all. It’s ingrained in me. Being academic is so deeply [...]
Tweet Chinese New Year is coming up soon and dumplings are one of my family’s favorite foods to celebrate the new year. Dumplings symbolize good luck and can be eaten so many ways – steamed, boiled or pan-fried (my favorite, also know as guotie in Chinese or potstickers here in the US) and can be [...]
Tweet Chinese New Year is just two weeks away on Feb. 4, 2013 with the Year of the Snake. I admit I’m a little sad the current year is coming to an end – it was Year of the Dragon, MY year. As a child, my mother always told me I’d have special luck during [...]
Tweet I was a panelist on HuffPost Live for a segment called Don’t Judge Moms with Erin Cox of One Hot Mama, Farah Miller of HuffPost Parents, Diane Kline of QuirkOut and Rhiana Maidenberg of Married with Toddlers. I was honored to be featured with this talented group of moms. We talked about our experiences with mommy [...]
Tweet Some of you already know that a couple of months ago my husband was diagnosed with food allergies to soy, eggs and gluten. He has a candida (yeast) overgrowth that’s causing his rheumatoid arthritis to flare up to the point where he has chronic back pain and fatigue. His rheumatologist suggested a candida-free diet, [...]
Tweet I’ll be the first to admit, I struggle a lot with my kids. I recently read an article about why American children are so spoiled and it really got me thinking… I was raised in a Filipino household and was expected to get good grades, excel in my extracurricular activities, do our chores and [...]
Tweet I love the summer. It’s sunny. The ocean heats up. And we spend most of our days at the beach. I have the tans lines to prove it. My kids just love swimming and boogie boarding in the ocean. In the mornings, my older kids go to summer camp at their school for a [...]
Tweet As much as it would have pained me as a teenager to admit it, I’ve become more like my mother than I ever would have thought. I find myself saying things like “Ai-yah!,” which is like the Chinese equivalent of “Oh my gosh!” (or WTF when the kids are not around) when annoyed by [...]
Tweet Thank goodness for the Internet. Without it, I would have no idea how to help my kids set up leprechaun traps for St. Patrick’s Day or make bird feeders out of recycled plastic bottles for Earth Day. My kids absolutely LOVE doing arts and crafts for holidays—even Earth Day and President’s Day. I think [...]
