My mom gave me a book called The Korean Cinderella when I was younger. I was fascinated by the heroine, Pear Blossom, and her hanbok dresses. When I first visited my birth family in Korea, they bought custom-designed hanboks for me and Holden as...
Jet lag is a bitch. It’s 2:54 am, and I am wide awake – eating the last pack of...
“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.” — Andre Gide In preparation for National...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Chuseok in Korea. The annual harvest festival is like Thanksgiving for Koreans. My birth...
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre...
I shared the photo above today as a reminder to myself and clarification for others about why I do...
Reading the words, “Go back to where came from,” used by Trump to disparage four of our congresswomen,...
“Are you crying?” my husband, Holden, asks me. No, I insist- my chopsticks shaking as they hold a piece...
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prepares to begin immigration raids tomorrow, my heart breaks for the children currently...
Eleven years ago, I opened up the iMovie app on my computer, pressed the record button, and began to...
Last October, I made a plan to spend my Sunday evenings scanning old family pictures for posterity (and a...
“It is ‘where we are’ that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”...
Did you know that November is National Adoption Awareness Month? I’ve been asked by many well-intentioned inquirers if I...
