Articles tagged: holidays and celebration
Column: BBC show looking for Tiger Mother would have been disappointed in our chai-museum-library routine
Posted: Apr 10, 2011I got a call from the BBC last month looking for an Asian American family to take in two troubled and unruly British teens for a week of “good old-fashioned values, discipline and boundaries” for ... Read more »
column: Remembering the dolls of Girls' Day, facing forward from Japan's tsunami
Posted: Mar 20, 2011The first time I went to visit my parents in Hawaii, I went during mid-winter break at the end of February, scheduled to return to Michigan on March 1 or 2. Strangers were indignant. “What? ... Read more »
Just being there at Losar Tibetan New Year and standing with our Muslim American neighbors
Posted: Mar 13, 2011The woman at Jewel Heart temple recognized me, saying, “We have met before,” but she could not remember my name. “I came last year for Losar,” I said. “And the year before.” I was a ... Read more »
Taking the time to celebrate birthdays, African American History Month and other special times
Posted: Feb 27, 2011I had nearly forgotten, until I received the Facebook post from my good friend James wishing me a happy birthday. James and I share the same birthday, so I immediately wished him a happy birthday, ... Read more »
A pair of poems for our children at King School International Night
Posted: Feb 20, 2011When I asked Crystal’s grandfather if he could write some Chinese calligraphy for King School’s International Night, I naively thought it was just a matter of his putting brush to paper and writing some pretty ... Read more »
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