So, the new John Legend song, All of Me, just destroys me. I haven’t yet broken down sobbing while listening to it, but mostly, I think it’s because I’m afraid that if I start, I won’t be able to stop. My favorite part is the chorus with the lyrics (full lyrics here): ‘Cause all of me Loves all of you Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections When I told Hapa Papa that I loved this song, he incredulously asked, “So, you’re telling me you love my farts? I’m pretty sure you do NOT.” I wanted to deck him. I guess he thinks he’s proved himself right on the impossibility of loving all of him. Well, I never said I loved the song because I loved all of him. Hmph. I love this song because I so desperately want it to be true for me. That all of me is…
A tip from a Mandarin Immersion school parent (taken originally from the Raising bilingual children in Chinese & English Facebook group) on how to purchase simplified Chinese ebooks from China using your US KINDLE or Kindle…
Every so often, I wonder to myself, “Why am I still not talking to my father?” After all, my parents are divorced, he is free to do whatever…
We all say we want our kids to be special and unique and to be themselves. But is this really true? What if their true selves are jerks?…
According to this Huffington Post article, nagging is one of the top reasons people divorce. (Incidentally, I’m obsessed with the HuffPo Divorce section. I find that sometimes, you…
On Saturday, I went to a high school choir reunion with a few friends. As we were checking out the new cafeteria (well, new since 2008 anyway), I…
Scroll to the bottom if you want to see me read it on video. Call it my cheap Asian genes, but I have a hard time actually using…
It has been a over two years since I told my father he and his mother are dead to me. Since then, I have had two additional children,…
Ladies and gentleman, I am thirty-five years old, have three small children, am married, and own a business with my mother. Yet somehow, when I stop and think…
