The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street - Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2026) The term "astronaut family" was coined in 1999 and I suppose that's around the time when I would have heard it first also. But by then it was already a concept I was familiar with. This was a term used to… Continue reading Book Review: The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street by Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
Part One Part Two Knowing that travelling across the world and spending 10 days in a foreign country where you don't speak the language can be overwhelming and exhausting, we planned our trip with the framework that it would get easier as we went along. Thus, we started in Kowloon, moved to Hong Kong Island,… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part Three) – Disneyland
Kin - Tayari Jones (Viking, 2026) Annie and Vernice (or Niecey as she's known by those close to her) are "cradle friends". Two babies without mothers who are placed in the same cradle, both growing up in the Black community of Honeysuckle, Louisiana. Vernice is an orphan, taken in by her aunt, after her father… Continue reading Book Review: Kin by Tayari Jones
(Part One here) On March 20th we checked out of the Dorsett Mong Kok and took the MTR to...the Dorsett Wan Chai. We had booked our hotels well before our trip and I was a little nervous about booking two hotels in the same chain. Because if it turned out horribly, over half our vacation… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part Two) – Wan Chai
Read: The Singer's Gun - Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage Books, 2015) The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022) Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - Heather Fawcett (Penguin Random House Audio, 2026) The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965) Here for a Good Time - Kim Spencer… Continue reading What I Read – March 2026
Last August, Peter and I took the plunge and bought tickets to fly to Hong Kong. This has been a trip we've talked about making together for years. Maybe since we first started dating seriously. We talked about going before we had kids but ended up spending a month travelling through Europe instead. We talked… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part One) – Mong Kok
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