• a blurry photo of an art gallery with words saying A healthy Dose of Art

    A Healthy Dose of Art

    Here in Hong Kong, our family has been practicing social distancing including working from home, attending school online, and saying no to almost everything fun or interesting since mid-January. As in eleven weeks of frantic tedium and anxious boredom. Several other places around the world are just now completing their first week of doing the same and believe me, I feel the weight of it all right through my screen. I’m working on writing my personal story and first-hand experience with life in lock down due to the Coronavirus. It’s been perhaps the most strangely difficult thing I’ve had to write, and it’s taking forever. Trying to strike a balance…

  • Moana: A Homecoming Celebration

    From my earliest childhood, all I wanted to do was travel the world. A wildly imaginative and precocious kid, my poor frustrated parents would frequently throw their hands up in the air and say, “What are we going to do with you?” My answer was always, “Send me to Germany!” No I didn’t know anyone there, or anyone from there, but it seemed exotic and far away from our Los Angeles suburb and I wanted to. I didn’t know actually living around the world was a possibility, or else that would have been my childhood desire I’m sure. Right now we live in Hong Kong, and get to spend a lot…