I’m not a big fan of drugs, prescribed or otherwise. Which is why before tonight, I haven’t yet used an ’emergency’ nasal spray that my family doctor had prescribed me for when I have a very bad case of sinus. But as of 10p.m. tonight, I really could barely breathe through my nose. It felt […]
Author: Ann Yeong
Becoming Someone
A post inspired by a recent conversation with a friend and dedicated to those in psychological pain: How many of us are aware of what forces are shaping our identity? It’s always difficult to hear criticism, especially from those we love. When we get a glimpse of ourselves from others’ disapproving or disappointed eyes, it […]
Holiday Highlights
What happens when you have 2 trigger-happy people on a trip? Too many photographs! :P After a selection and screening process, I managed to pare down my family’s holiday photos to 1996 (that’s from both my camera and John’s). I’ve selected some highlights from that ponderous collection to be shared in my online album. So […]
Mindfulness
We do and say so many things during the course of a day. Are we mindful of what we do and say? Of the motivations within us that drive those words and actions? Of the impact of our words and actions on others? Without mindfulness, compassion has limited power. Love cannot flow into our thoughts, […]
My Parents' Daughter
You know you’ve found a keeper when: He wakes up more than an hour earlier than he normally does to have coffee and a morning chat with your jet-lagged brother. He makes a simple board game side-splittingly funny for your entire family with his corny antics and doesn’t care when he loses. Your mother confides […]
My 'Keeper'
You know you’ve found a keeper when: He wakes up more than an hour earlier than he normally does to have coffee and a morning chat with your jet-lagged brother. He makes a simple board game side-splittingly funny for your entire family with his corny antics and doesn’t care when he loses. Your mother confides […]
A New Year
It’s 2007. There’s one thing I missed about crossing over to a new year, and that’s writing in my journal. See, since I started keeping a diary when I was about 9 years old, I always made an entry on the 31st of December no matter how infrequently I had journaled during the year. There’s […]
Snow. Finally!
Rue St. Antoine in Montréal After all that waiting, we finally got to see a bit of Canadian winter! It snowed overnight and we woke up to a winter wonderland. We checked out Vietnamese food and Montréal’s Chinatown, as well as Vieux Montréal where we visited Notre Dame and Pointe-à -Callière, Musée d’archéologie et d’histoire de […]
Windows
Cathy viewing snowfall in Zibin’s living room Going on a 5-day family road trip to Montréal and Québec… Happy New Year everyone!
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Zibin & I at Buttermilk Falls Go ahead. Laugh. We’re rolling on the floor right along with you! We took a rapid succession of action shots in this series which I hope to make into a GIF file eventually. Snow was falling. Us in half a dozen such crazy positions. It would make a really […]
Journey of the Heart 