An acrostic micro-essay for Mother's Day
My mother is a serious person. She doesn’t read, she studies. The first time I was taught to annotate
You have to have a song, pt. 2
In the late 1980s, my family got our first 8-track karaoke machine. It was huge and extremely heavy and we
You have to have a song, pt. 1
When I was little, my parents would often take us to Beitou, up in the mountains just north of Taipei,
How translating is like love
I fell into translation the same way I fell in love with my husband – without expecting to and wholeheartedly. Both
What day are you?
Six months ago, I started tracking my menstrual cycle with my dear friend, S. We are both 48, on the
What movies about time travel are really about
Sci-fi has never been my genre - especially if it involves space and time travel (or worse, aliens dripping with
...to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be..." Joan Didion
When I was nine, I felt frustrated by the adults around me, who seemed to have forgotten that they had
Paper cranes
I like to do something with my hands when I'm talking on the phone or when I'
After poems
The poet, Safia Elhillo, wrote a craft essay on Catapult Magazine (back when it was still a magazine) about turning
What female killer whales teach me about being a 48 year-old woman
I was very fortunate to enjoy all three of my pregnancies. Growing children inside my body introduced me to the
