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Dear Ms. Wai – Caught Gossiping Online

Dear Ms. Wai, I don’t have a lot of close girlfriends around me I can talk to. Instead I use

It’s hard to believe that 20 years ago I delivered my first child–and learned about 滿月 or 坐月子 as I

Last week I saw my friend Li after our kids got out of school for the day. Li knows more

Have you ever lost a meaning in translation because you didn’t quite understand another culture? That happened to me the

The first time I felt trapped was in a service elevator in a Washington, DC YMCA. I was 22 and

Many years ago I moved to Hong Kong to study. I met a Chinese student and married him six months

When I divorced my first husband 17 years ago, the last thing I wanted was to let our two-year-old son

We hear plenty from the Western women side of WWAM couples on this site, so this time, I decided to

It wasn’t like I hadn’t grown up in a feminist household. My mom and her only sister had gone to

Back when I was in the market to buy a wedding dress in Hong Kong and China, I had the