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Living in Rwanda, my husband experienced something I had felt for a long time. He could not hide the fact that he was different. When we w...

“No one will date you because you’re mixed race.” My heart sank this past week when my son told me someone had said this to him, but I hi...

White linen and the scent of comfort. That is how I remember my mother when I see this photograph. I thought about this when I read an ...

A part of me is waking. It says, “I’m Asian. I’m Puerto Rican. … Wait!  Who am I?” One wake-up call happened in a local coffee shop. I ha...

On the eve of Mother’s Day, I must always reflect on my own mother.  I do this to clear my sadness and to prepare myself for my own day ...

This week on Modern Family , the Dunphy-Prichett-Tucker households, contemplated surrogacy. They cooked up an idea to have the egg from the ...

Tonight, my son shared a video with me. His struggles with being happy in his own skin and his need to be accepted has been worrying me. He’...

It is February 2nd.  February isn’t the best month for me.  If you have followed me for a while, you know that today is the anniversary of m...

Tomorrow is my birthday … or rather the day that the Korean government gave me as a birthday. On my first birthday, one of the most importan...

The news of Steve Jobs’ death made me feel that it was just the extra punch in the stomach of a very bad day. But then, I watched his 2005 S...