As well as being one of the 50 Questions That Will Free You Mind which I plab to answer as part of my 101 Things In 1001 Days challenge, this is something I have talked about many times with Tae ( Read more... )

Prince may have said it best, but it’s a sentiment many of us can relate to - Act your age, not your shoe size. Lately, in the rush to proclaim 40 as the new 30 - or even 25 - we’ve noticed a trend of 40 year old women who seem, frankly, afraid to grow up. While the phenomenon is most clearly evident in celebrities whose attire, song lyrics and ( Read more... )

I am so proud of the amazing child my Tae is becoming ( Read more... )

I have always been very jealous of people who can make things with their hands, people who can crochet and sew and most of all people who can knit. It's one of those things I have always wanted to be able to do ( Read more... )

I've always been very fortunate to be confident in myself, in my identity, in knowing who I am, to be able to know what it is that I love. And to not be ashamed or embarassed by it ( Read more... )

Things are starting to take shape around here. Here being this little spot of cyberspace I call my own ( Read more... )

It would seem its been over 16 months since I visited LJ. I'm not even completely sure what got me to log in today but here I am. I've read my friends page, I've read some of my past entries and it made me realise that I kind of miss the interactions you can have with people online. I was also quite disappointed to notice that I'm not the only ( Read more... )

When Tae was younger I was very intent on learning about ways in which I could instill a sense of Korean-ness (identity, culture, history, connection) in my daughter, who is one-quarter Korean. Being hapa, myself, I worried frequently and passionately about my own feelings of inadequacy as a "real Korean;" my sense of removal from my mother's ( Read more... )

Seeing Les Miserables and loving it at the weekend got me to thinking about other movies I like based on musicals, or plays and I realised how many of them there are, and the differences in seeing them ( Read more... )