Generosity leads to a life more abundant
I was chatting with a Bringing Up Brits reader the other day and she was telling me that as she gets older and the longer she lives in Britain, the more she wants to get back to her Chinese roots. She’s married to a British man and is bringing up two young Brits, half Chinese. […]
Letting go of ‘so-called’ friends
I woke up today thinking about something hurtful that happened to me on the day of my book launch for Bringing Up Brits which, by the way, happened nearly two years ago. A British friend of mine told me, point blank, that she had no interest and no connection to my book because she is […]
“Are you from The Philippines?”
On my way to taking my toddler to pre-school, a man stopped me and asked me, “Are you from The Philippines?”. I smiled and said no and he said Ok, sorry. This is not the first time, or the last I’m sure, that strangers have stopped me and asked me this, although usually it is “Are […]


