The Catch Star Girl Blog – Straddling the divide between Asian and North American Culture

A typical “heated discussion” with my mother re China

In me, my mother has the daughter who is eager to learn Chinese and – to a lesser extent –

April 26, 2019 Catch Star Girl

I’m going to throw up this short list of vocabulary related to royalty because kiddo has this adorable just-before-bed routine*

30 January For months now, I have been giving SLZ a chewable Flintstone vitamin and from the first time he

As much as I might mumble to myself, “Good grief, does the grandmother just sit the two toddlers in front

While the English version of Canada Reads has been held since 2002, I started tuning in around 2011 (maybe). In

January 31, 2019 Catch Star Girl

Flickr – oh Flickr of yore – closing down its unlimited photos features and deleting all photos over your 1,000th

Recently, I started to think about my surname. We’ve all heard heard that some English surnames like Miller, Smith, Hunter,

Since I prefaced each note I made for the past three months with a date, I’m keeping the dates and

How’s this for a blog post idea: compiling vocabulary lists to make it through the upcoming holiday. In this case,

I keep a Google Keep file to keep notes. I love how this series is developing because while observing the