Culture

JOURNEY TO FIFTY: MY ADVICE TO GEN Z

November 23, 2021 November 25, 2021

I wish someone had told me these things. Not in passing, not through social media. But sit me down, eyeball-to-eyeball, telling me what I am …

Blaming it All on the Himalayas: A Provocative Analysis of Race Relations

June 1, 2021 June 14, 2021

The mob erupted, clanged, and pealed under #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate in a cacophonous harmony. There I was, letting out a breathless squeak. My voice didn’t …

Losing My Religion II: Five Things They Don’t Tell You When You Sit in the Pews

March 23, 2021 April 15, 2021

After three years of blogging on the Green Owl, I had it. I had no idea who reads these gut-wrenching posts. I am clueless about …

How We Survived Five Days Without Power

August 31, 2020 November 28, 2020

Fast and furious would be the words to describe an unlikely wind storm named Isaias. (It’s not pronounced “Isaiah-s” like the prophetic book of the …

Life through COVID-19: A Perspective from an Ordinary New York Mom

May 26, 2020 August 24, 2020

Day 1 | March 9 I started counting on March 9. March 8 was the last day I was in a public gathering. I worshipped …

A Field Trip to the Wild, Wild West

January 7, 2020 March 17, 2021

The Plane I am very used to it by now – walking past the business class into the coach where we belong. I am also …

An America-Loving Chinese Mom

July 4, 2019 March 1, 2021

“Mom, we don’t seem patriotic,” my younger daughter said, “I don’t see that we wave the American flag on the 4th of July. We just …

Now I See Her

November 23, 2017 August 28, 2020

I heard a series of loud grunts coming from the other side of the pool. It was strange and uncomfortable for me at first. I’d …

Camping as a Good Distraction

August 22, 2017 September 4, 2020

My husband and I were both raised in the city setting. I grew up in a bustling city of Taipei, and my husband came from a …

Hypocrisy

August 8, 2017 January 27, 2021

hy·poc·ri·sy həˈpäkrəsē noun the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense. It was Wednesday …

“Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?”

May 9, 2017 August 9, 2021

James and John’s mother pleaded with Jesus to grant her two sons the place of prominence – that one would sit at the right and …

The Vaccine Debate and How I Got Involved

May 2, 2017 October 13, 2021

I felt irritated whenever I saw anti-vaccine posts in my Facebook news feeds. My finger instinctively moved towards the option to “see fewer posts like this.” But as these posts kept on popping up, I eventually gave the newsfeed algorithm an ultimatum. “Stop showing posts from this source!” It didn’t work. More vaccine-related news and stories found their way into my feeds from other sources.READ MORE“The Vaccine Debate and How I Got Involved”

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