Currently reading Jeremy Grimaldi’s A Daughter’s Deadly Deception
Look what I found when browsing through VPL’s eBook collection when I filtered for Available Now for some instant gratification
Read moreFarewell to Anthony Bourdain
It’s been a sucker punch of a week with news of the loss of celebrities. Three days ago, on June
Read moreIn my budget: Canadian Mint’s Peaceful Panda coin
The email from Canada Mint in the morning and by afternoon – very shortly after I viewed the email – I
Read morePoison for the kid: a rant
(written for my journal on 14 May 2018) Me: Before the kid came along, was I saying I would speak
Read moreCantonese vocabulary: body parts
Kids like to know there’s a name for everything and what is more personal than their own bodies? Even as
Read moreOn raising a bilingual child – 33-month mark
I’m writing again because things change so quickly – and at the 33-month mark exactly, no less! When kiddo was
Read moreCantonese dictionaries and Romanization of the kid’s Chinese name
It started with a question that came to me to ask my mum if she named herself after Grace Kelly.
Read moreWindow shopping at Canada Post/Canadian Mint
Isn’t that a splendid header that would be well-suited as a banner for a blog? It’s that time of year
Read moreCurrently reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers
I finished reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers at the end of September and I found myself racing to the end
Read moreA Catch Star Girl illustration
Every now and then, I consider sketching or commissioning a graphic/logo/illustration that is literally a girl catching a star. Then
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