Happy New Year!
Before we start a new year, I want to thank all my HapaMama readers for making 2014 a wonderful, busy, full chapter of my writing career as well as my personal life. I really value all the friends I’ve made through this site and appreciate the wonderful dialogues we’ve had.
Here are some highlights from 2014:
Having my photos included in the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s “Day in the Life” exhibit
Speaking about New Media at the MixedRemixed festival
Being named a Top 50 Mom Blogger by Mom.me
Appearing on Huff Post Live and WGN Radio
Speaking at the BlogHer ’14 keynote panel on intersectional feminism
Starting the APA Book Club with Book Dragon Terry Hong and the folks at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
In my freelance writing, I’ve been honored to contribute for the first time to publications such as xoJane, AAPI Voices, Library Journal, School Library Journal, as well as working on a feature article for the Center for Asian American Media that will be published in 2015.
I’ve really enjoyed meeting–or catching up with–many of my Internet friends in real life throughout the past 12 months at events such as the V3/AAJA and BlogHer conferences or just over sushi, dim sum, ramen (yes, there is a pattern here).
And I want to thank our the brands and businesses which have sponsored or partnered with HapaMama over the past year to help me with my mission of brining quality content to multiracial Asian American families.
What’s to come in 2015?
As each new year begins, I try to think of goals, themes and intentions for the upcoming season. There are so many words which I mulled on and tried on for size — joy, engagement, care, place — but eventually decided the phrase that best encompasses my hopes for the year is wholehearted. It’s a term I associate with Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly, a book I’ve been reading over the holiday break. The premise is so simple, it seems too obvious: the things which cause us the most discomfort and fear, the things we avoid dealing with or admitting because the potential for rejection or failure is so great… those are the exact areas which we should allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to share, and to engage. It’s a phrase for me which could apply to so many facets of life, including relationships, career goals, advocacy, community. While it may sound like a “soft” word, I actually think it’s a concept that can embrace so much power and potential.
Of course, many things will remain constant as we flip a page in the calendar. I look forward to continuing the discussion about raising mixed-race Asian families. As the progress on my house draws closer and closer to completion, I can’t wait to share with you my new kitchen and all the delicious traditional and fusion recipes I’ll be cooking up! And I hope to include you, my HapaMama readers, in the site more than ever in 2015…
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