I don't have a good cover photo, so here's a relaxing picture I took of a beach in the Maldives.  A pretty strong content warning on...

                        Yes, it's a punny title, but I won't change it.  It felt like magic when I began losing weight without tryin...

As usual I don't have a great header image, but I thought a memorial temple to five women who were screwed over by the patriarchy in Tai...

Just wanted you guys to know that I've updated my post on an English-speaking OB-GYN in Taipei, as my old clinic has closed and Dr. Wang...

Over the past few months I've been gearing up to write my dissertation, and was feeling a bit blue about having lots of reading to do be...

This meme - not established Taiwanese media -  is the most accurate translation of Han's actual remarks that I've found.  So, I...

In part because Lao Ren Cha' s initial goal was to write about life as a female foreign resident in Taiwan, and in part because I just c...

A friend sent me this the other day: it's a document translated in Chinese, Japanese, English and several Southeast Asian languages aski...

I'll be expanding this more in the coming weeks, but I feel like I need to say something now, however short and underdeveloped. If you...

The March 2018 issue of Centered on Taipei is the "women's issue" - I wrote a piece about shuttling between multiple identitie...

A piece of mine is featured in the MyTaiwanTour blog this week - hopefully the first of many - on traveling the world as a woman (it's ...

You may remember my post a few weeks ago about the proposed changes to regulations aimed at protecting foreign blue-collar labor, and my ab...

A harsh question, but here's the problem. According to Focus Taiwan , new laws meant to strengthen protections for foreign workers inc...

 Two posts within a few hours of each other caught my eye in an unexpected way, and caused a resurfacing of an old question I'd asked...