Author Archives: jemmiez

Summary: This book endeavors to reframe the narrative around career gaps taken to spend time with kids. It helps plan for a pause, thrive during the pause, and reenter the workplace after the pause. Personal Takeaways: Personal Relevance:

Summary: Biography and auto-biography of three generations of Chinese women who go through life as concubine of a warlord and then doctor, a loyal Communist when the KMT were first defeated, and a youth growing up in the Communist era and maturing through its evolution and various leaders. Personal Takeaways: Personal Relevance:

Summary: The story of a mother and her daughters who are abandoned by their family to flee the Cultural Revolution. Details their escape and fight for survival from rural Shandong, to Qingdao, Hong Kong, and finally Taiwan. Highlights the impact of Confucian patriarchy on Chinese family dynamics and culture, particularly its impact on women. PersonalContinue reading “Daughters of Shandong, Eve Chung”

Summary: First person account of a Shanghainese woman falsely accused of being a foreign spy during the Cultural Revolution and subsequently jailed for 6.5 years before being rehabilitated immigrating moving to America. Illustrates how Chinese culture and morality was in constant flux depending on publicized Community Party ideology/agenda and how the people’s personal rights andContinue reading “Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng”

Trader Joe’s gives you free buckets if you ask. 5 flowers (1 dahlia, 1 spray roses, 1 camomile, 1 long thingy, and 1 yellow boop) and 1 filler eucalyptus coated about $35, which is roughly $5 per bouquet. Didn’t end up needing the eucalyptus. Can repurpose salad dressing bottles to use as vases. Spray rosesContinue reading “Flowers”