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  • Getting Ready for Halloween

    I love Halloween. Always have. As a kid I loved playing dress-up and spent most of my free time in some imaginary world inside my head anyway, so Halloween was the holiday that allowed me to do all that without feeling…

  • I Got Your Crazy

    My mom, dad, and my brother have all agreed that I'm the craziest one in the family. Frankly, I don't think we set the bar of normalcy very high. My mother has obsessive compulsive streaks that will motivate her to reo…

  • Money In My Family, Part 2

    I never had an allowance growing up. I remember asking my dad for one in the third grade, after learning that so many of my peers got set allowances from their parents. But my dad's response was always the same: "No ne…

  • Money In My Family

    I've grown up getting together with extended family for large group dinners. Every time, at the end of the meal, I would watch the grown-ups fight for the check. Eventually someone wins, which then results in the other…

  • Lessons from Mom and Dad

    I read a blog post written by a woman who lost her mother four years ago. In the post, she thanks her mother for the lessons she taught. This inspired me to take stock of the lessons my parents have taught me. My fami…

  • Bugging My Mom

    A conversation I just had with my mom: Me: Mom? Mom [looking up from her newspaper]: Hmm? Me: Do you have any white socks that go up to here [points to knees]? Mom: I don't think so. Maybe. Did you look in my s…

  • My Fortune

    Maybe it's because I'm Chinese that I'm pretty superstitious. I realize that an educated and rational human being like myself shouldn't buy into psychics, fortune telling, horoscopes and the like, but I can't help it. …

  • Invest Your Love More Wisely

    In my family, no pretense is made about which child is loved more. It's pretty obvious that I'm my dad's favorite and my brother is my mom's. My dad has an explanation for his preference: I humor him more and treat him…

  • Pushing Buttons

    A few weeks ago, my cousin Jocelin mentioned to her parents that she and her fiancé, whom she's recently moved to Southern California with, were thinking about getting season passes to Disneyland. Now, if there were any…

  • My Dad Tries to Fetch Me a Husband

    My mother tells me this morning that my Uncle Gerard wants to set me up with someone. Apparently, Uncle Gerard knows a guy who has been working as a post-doc or temporary lecturer at UC Berkeley. The guy got an offer f…

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