Audrey Chin
Time to empty
Healthwise, it's been a crazy year so far. Not a month has passed without a visit to Accidents and Emergencies or an onset of sniffles,...
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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Feb 24, 2018
- 1 min
What if all creation?
I always get a bit of a spiritual high during Lent. Perhaps it’s all that incense at the church services. Or maybe it’s just the season....
Audrey Chin
- Apr 2, 2015
- 2 min
This Palm Sunday I didn’t go to church
This year, on Palm Sunday, I went to Lee Kuan Yew's funeral
Audrey Chin
- Jun 16, 2014
- 2 min
Homelessness? Or a kind of freedom?
Roots are a gift, but homelessness gives us different opportunities
Audrey Chin
- May 5, 2014
- 1 min
What if your kid was too obedient?
Will insects fly into your mouth if your child is too obedient
Audrey Chin
- Apr 29, 2014
- 2 min
Tonight I’m a swinging 56
A fifty six year old on a swing
Audrey Chin
- Apr 18, 2014
- 1 min
Greater love than this …
It’s Easter this weekend. This weekend I’m celebrating love. It began on the Thursday evening with a remembrance that true leadership...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 9, 2014
- 1 min
Poetry is the unexpected stranger …
I’m drunk with words. My nephew, the artist and poet, is visiting with his family. We’ve been indulging in artsy-fartsy conversation,...
Audrey Chin
- Mar 3, 2014
- 3 min
It’s Sunday: Tiger Moms and Cubs need rest too
On the 7th day HE rested. I need a rest. So does my kid. It’s been a little too much – the travels, the back-to-back meetings the week...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 19, 2014
- 1 min
In Myanmar: Rock and wonder!
Words can’t describe this natural wonder seemingly balanced on a hair (Buddha’s apparently). The Golden Rock of Mon State – It’s a...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 15, 2014
- 1 min
In Myanmar: Union Day among the Karen
I spent February 12, Myanmar’s Union Day, among the Karen. Union Day celebrates the signing of the Panglong Agreement between the...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 1, 2014
- 2 min
New Year Flowers and Fruits
Flowers and tea New Year is about family visits and catching up. It’s about relationships. The very beautiful pink-buds of the Bonsai...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 25, 2014
- 2 min
“The” New Year’s round the corner
As you all know, I got stuck a little trying to start 2014. But, the Green Horse Year is coming in at a galloping pace and I’m all ready...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 22, 2014
- 1 min
More Missives from Katie and Zoong: Fathers Are Like Bird's Feathers
Believing in magic, we’d hide these found treasures between the pages of our text books, sprinkling bread crumbs over them to feed them....
Audrey Chin
- Jan 19, 2014
- 1 min
More missives from Katie’s and Zoong’s haphazard upbringing
Here’s one from Zoong writing from a green fog – Some family facts we’d rather you didn’t know 😉 More missives from Katie’s and Zoong’s...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 18, 2014
- 1 min
Stepping out of the box
I’m stepping out of the box. The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a...
Audrey Chin
- Oct 14, 2013
- 2 min
Writing through life
I’ve been a little distracted lately. Life’s getting in the way of my writing. My writing’s getting in the way of life. And all of it is...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 24, 2013
- 2 min
Effortless chic or cheap? Give up shopping and find out
Give up clothes-shopping for a year!!! That’s the challenge my fellow tribe-writers Kathleen Caron and Pamela Hodges are on. Following...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 17, 2013
- 4 min
Dalat – A special place in my heart
I am a sucker for romance and Dalat is a romantic, if kitschy, city. It’s main lake, Ho Xuan Huong, is named after Vietnam’s most famous...
Audrey Chin
- Jul 27, 2013
- 3 min
3.5 lost days and 12 surprising discoveries
The best made holiday plans can be upset. Weather, short-staffed inn-keepers and unforeseen road closures can conspire to turn an...
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