about me
New life skills are making my dreams come true. I’ve actually survived my childhood, divorce and a rotten economy to re-invent myself. Home is a cozy house in the ‘burbs (Westchester County, N.Y.). Family consists of my teen daughter, plus our three cats and a dog.
And for more details…
After a 17-year haitus from daily journalism, I got back in the game on Jan. 1, 2012 at Newsday’s new Hudson Valley news website. To become a reporter again meant quitting all my beloved journalist teaching gigs, which I began taking on in 2004 (NYU, The New School, St. John’s University, Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute, Baruch, Mediabistro).
Before the campus scene, I had a 15-year newspaper career that concluded with an eight-year stint at The New York Daily News. My last assignment was writing a nationally syndicated column about diversity and the immigrant experience. Fun fact: I was the first Asian American staffer at every single job (Crain’s New York Business, The Newark Star-Ledger and The Hudson-Dispatch). Being a historic relic is kinda cool.
I grew up in Chinatown and will always be proud of my NYC public school education (P.S. 1, J.H.S. 65, Stuyvesant H.S., Baruch College). Later, a student loan carried me through a graduate degree (Columbia University’s School of Journalism).
As for the truly personal stuff, in 2000, I went solo after 18 years of marriage. Very tough. But the ex- and I remain friends in raising our daughter.
In moving on, dating has been…haha, how much time do you have? Oh well. Thank goodness for dear friends and other passions (painting, blogging and therapy.)
Life is strange, wonderful, unpredictable.
And I’m totally rolling with it. xoxoxoxo
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