We are all counting down to Thanksgiving and recognize that in 2020 the celebration of this holiday will be different because of the pandemic. Some family members may be absent this year from the dining table because of various reasons related to COVID-19. In my...
November is National Family Caregiver Month. For 1.5-generation immigrant children like me, it feels good to be acknowledged for this critical role that so many of us are playing within our families. Most of the Chinese-American families that have immigrated to the...
Every four years as the presidential election season ramps up, I am reminded of what my youngest brother said years ago when he was in elementary school. “I can be president of the United States, and you can’t!” My memories of that incident are too foggy to recall...
After our family immigrated to the United States when I was six years old, I had no problem with starting to use the English name “Lily” because I had already been called “Little Li” after having been given this English name as a toddler in honor of one of my father’s...
It was in 1993 that comedian Jeff Foxworthy came out with his “You Might be a Redneck if…” jokes. Since then, many, many other folks have riffed off of these hilarious one-liners, customizing the humor to their own personal circumstances. I’ve always wanted to do the...
