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By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
Late last year, I had a miscarriage at eight weeks. Almost exactly six months later, my husband, my three-year-old son, and I temporarily relocated to Kenya for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
These two events — a sorrowful loss and an exhilarating opportunity — are inextricably linked. Continue Reading »
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By Melanie Mar Chow
Truth or dare. Childhood memories recall a game that made me submit to the dare to eat the dreaded banana or to taste soap. The stinging words of “You liar!” from those that taunted me in my youth still feel like a slap in the face decades later.
My mind echoed back to those days when recently, I was deciding whether to put quotation marks on something I was writing. Continue Reading »
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By Diana Gee
Accounting
It’s tax season here in Canada. And for the first time I’m claiming clergy status to reduce my taxes. While this seems like a good idea, it has caused me much pain and gnashing of teeth. Since I had not bothered to claim clergy status before, I had to backtrack transportation and housing expenses for the last five years. Continue Reading »
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By Young Lee Hertig
Life, amidst the culture of virtual takeover, demands us to devote more time, energy, and resources to machines. The ongoing dependence and intrusion of technology accompanies the ongoing troubleshooting of technological problems. Yes, I am aware of the fact that this blog is possible because of our digital access. Continue Reading »
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By Eun Joo Angela Ryo
Over the centuries, the Parable of the Prodigal Son has been exegeted inside out and upside down by both the bright and serious theologians and your average churchgoers alike; each character, each action, each dialogue, each WORD had been carefully dissected and analyzed and overanalyzed again and again. Continue Reading »
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By Sarah D. Park
“If anything crazy happens, you’ll call me, okay?”
“You got it. So I’m off the meds completely? You’re sure?”
“For now.”
In the 14 years since I had been diagnosed with lupus, there have only been three times I’ve ever been completely off meds. Continue Reading »
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By Maria Liu Wong
Being the parent of a middle-schooler is not an easy job. Raising a middle-schooler in New York City makes it that much more challenging.
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I let Joshua, our oldest son — a slim-built, not-very-tall sixth grader — walk home for the first time by himself. Continue Reading »
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By Wendy Choy-Chan
My elder daughter will turn seventeen in a few months. “Seventeen” sounds so much more mature, ready to conquer the world than “sixteen.” No longer my little baby. For one, she is taller than me now. She takes (borrows) clothes from my wardrobe — well, those she deems fashionable. She is also driving now (thank God we don’t have an extra car for her!), so she is ready to venture out all by herself, literally. Continue Reading »
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(Note: Below is an abridged version of the original poem.)
By Tina Teng-Henson
I bet you missed them.
Missed the constant camaraderie,
having two people right next to you,
all the time,
who always understood
what you were thinking,
always agreed about
what to do. Continue Reading »
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By Liz Chang
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