The Catch Star Girl Blog – Page 2 – Straddling the divide between Asian and North American Culture

Window 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

I finished reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers at the end of September and I found myself racing to the end

Every now and then, I consider sketching or commissioning a graphic/logo/illustration that is literally a girl catching a star. Then

So much more talking as he absorbs like a sponge words. I swear he hasn’t heard them many times and

I love a Chinese name with a good story behind it. And this one I learned about is neat and

So here is a story about what is probably racism. I want to claim that it’s just pride and deep-seated

Another one! We all know the French version: Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines,

So, there’s this nursery song I am not familiar with from my own childhood – the Finger Family. It’s a

The issue of raising little E bilingual – rephrase that as, getting as much Chinese into him as possible –

Sometimes I find myself making so many notes while I am reading a novel that I then know I need