Written especially for all the young introverts who are searching for acceptance of and empowerment within their quiet ways in a world that keeps pushing […] Read More
Author: lea
It was perhaps late in 2017, a little over a year after my family moved again from Manila to Singapore, when I noticed my almost-teenage […] Read More
To say that 2020 has been a different and difficult year is an understatement. In the weeks approaching Christmas, I started to feel some excitement […] Read More
15 December 2018 Dear Friend, Relative, Acquaintance, or Reader-Unknown-But-Much-Appreciated, It’s December once again, and I’m sure many of us are looking back at this year […] Read More
Last 28 Oct, the World Economic Forum published an article about the results of HSBC’s Annual Expat Explorer report for 2018. For the fourth year […] Read More
In the days and moments after I got home, I started to allow myself to feel everything, to stop beating myself up for crying at the airport, to accept my new normal as a wife and mother in a half-empty nest, a woman with a third of her heart living halfway across the world.
Last September, after getting back from an extended overseas college drop-off trip with my daughter, I decided that yoga would be a good way for […] Read More
A few days ago, my husband asked me what I want for Christmas this year. I didn’t have a ready answer then so I said […] Read More
I’d only recently learned that the month of April is Cesarean Awareness Month, an education campaign by the International Cesarean Awareness Network. While I do […] Read More
About sixteen months ago, in late October 2016, I stopped blogging. I can’t remember if there was a specific incident or cause, but something had […] Read More