By Katrina Beikoff
I wish I could win Olympic medals and have abs like super mum Dara Torres. But I’m too damn tired.
And I’d miss my kids.
After I had my first baby, it was all I could do to make it to the shower each day, let alone contemplate training or swimming 100 laps.
For weeks after […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
His driving was wildly erratic, his sense of danger frighteningly out of whack, but I can almost see now that his logic made perfect sense.
It was in Phuket and we nervously asked our driver why he kept crossing to the wrong side of the road, only narrowly missing on-coming traffic that seemed determined […]
By Victoria Hazel-Boland
Baby Jay, an orphan from Henan, has arrived at Shanghai
Children’s Medical Center this morning. He was quickly admitted into
the NICU. He is only 9 days old. His treatment will need to start
right away to try to get rid of his brain hematoma, then the 2nd stage
is to see if he would need […]
By: Joyce Lee
Many parents want children to be generous, courteous and cooperative. They want their children to be sharing people. Sharing is a life long process that we go through. It is one of those areas in life that we constantly need to evaluate, define and negotiate. Sharing may involve objects, emotions, space, the people […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
We’ve been away from Shanghai for two weeks. And have now come home.
It is the first time we have ever referred to Shanghai as home.
It’s something I wasn’t entirely sure would ever happen.
It wasn’t that we desperately missed China — lounging on white sandy beaches, spending hours in the sea, exploring rock […]
Author: Lynne Wymore Moo
My husband moved to Shanghai for his job.
I moved to Shanghai to travel.
In the pre-baby days, we organized our vacation time down to the minute. We analyzed each of our allotted holidays, layered them over our given time-off, and maximized each minute. We jumped planes all over […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
I am thinking of making a Chinese version of a ridiculous show — that absolutely tickled me — I once saw.
It was called ”How far From the Beach is it Acceptable to Wear Your Underwear?” Or something like that.
It started with a guy wearing white Y-fronts on Bondi Beach, where few beach-goers looked […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
I discovered a new park the other day. It’s less than a block from my home.
Birds chirping had been greeting us most mornings, yet the source of such trilling, utterly incongruous with the normal morning cacophony of horns blasting, engines revving, bellowing and barking, eluded me.
I’d failed to find anything other than the […]
By Katrina Beikoff*
Maybe it’s the heat, the change of seasons, or the phase of the moon, but sleeping has been a real problem lately.
Having unsettled children bailing on their own beds, then tossing and turning throughout the night in our bed has turned into a real pain in the neck, literally.
Somehow my partner managed to […]
In Annie Wang’s naffly titled, but entertainingly informative ‘‘People’s Republic of Desire,’’ there’s a little bite amongst the racy exploits of the lead character and her girlfriends, spun-out self-analysis and yearning for lost love that caused me angst.
I reference Wang’s 2006 novel — one of the many things I have tried to absorb in aid […]
