Just Between Us: One Thing I Didn’t Expect About Motherhood
By Kristan Hoffman One Thing I Didn’t Expect About Motherhood: How much I would think about bodies. My body. My children’s bodies. The way they grow, stretch, scar and …
Columnists – Just Between Us
Finding My Father’s Mark
By Kristan Hoffman Over Labor Day weekend, I visited Seattle for the first time. The city is an interesting mix of big business and hippie culture, with vibrant …
New Ways of Getting the News
By Kristan Hoffman A few months ago I was coming back to Texas to visit my parents, and my dad asked me to bring a copy of my …
The Tastes of Taipei
By Angie Liang Though Asia has a reputation for being inexpensive, the truth is that prices for most things in Taipei were not that different than other cities. …
The Sights of Taipei
By Angie Liang Walking the streets of Taipei for the first time in ten years, I found myself chuckling. It was so much like New York, except the …
Returning to Our Family’s Homeland
By Angie Liang A decade has passed since I last saw Taiwan, the island country where my parents are from. They spent their childhood until their early 20s …
Loving Spain, then and now
By Kristan Hoffman Seven years ago, I fell in love with a boy. He was my closest friend in college someone who made me laugh, challenged me …
Lessons on Humanity from a Cheetah
By Kristan Hoffman With the spots of a Dalmatian, the build of a Greyhound, and the paws of a Great Dane, Savanna is clumsily put together but unbelievably …
Our Holiday Break
By Kristan Hoffman and Angie Liang Kristan While there was no snow or sleigh bells, my holiday was otherwise fairly traditional. I flew home to Houston and was …
After the Storm
By Angie Liang We Houstonians are no strangers to hurricanes. Living in former swamplands about an hour from the Gulf Coast, weve had to stock up on non-perishables …