family – mabel lee

Visiting Roots

(Photos from old family albums dating back to 1980s) The first time I’d been back to Philly Chinatown in an entire year was on a Saturday about a month ago to have tea with a friend. In the car with my father bumping slowly down 10th Street to avoid sudden street-crossers, I peer outContinue reading “Visiting Roots”

Second-hand Memories

They say that I was awful at Cantonese when I was very little. Not that it has improved drastically over the last twenty years. I had bad intonation and limited vocabulary and spoke to my sister only in English. This, also, hasn’t changed. Having an older sister is useful in discovering memories of yourself youContinue reading “Second-hand Memories”