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

Poison 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

Kids like to know there’s a name for everything and what is more personal than their own bodies? Even as

I’m writing again because things change so quickly – and at the 33-month mark exactly, no less! When kiddo was

It started with a question that came to me to ask my mum if she named herself after Grace Kelly.

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