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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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
Feb 24, 20181 min read
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....
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Audrey Chin
Apr 2, 20152 min read
This Palm Sunday I didn’t go to church
This year, on Palm Sunday, I went to Lee Kuan Yew's funeral
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Audrey Chin
Jun 16, 20142 min read
Homelessness? Or a kind of freedom?
Roots are a gift, but homelessness gives us different opportunities
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Audrey Chin
May 5, 20141 min read
What if your kid was too obedient?
Will insects fly into your mouth if your child is too obedient
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Audrey Chin
Apr 18, 20141 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Mar 9, 20141 min read
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,...
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Audrey Chin
Mar 3, 20143 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 19, 20141 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 15, 20141 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Feb 1, 20142 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 25, 20142 min read
“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...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 22, 20141 min read
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....
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Audrey Chin
Jan 19, 20141 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Jan 18, 20141 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Oct 14, 20132 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 24, 20132 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Aug 17, 20134 min read
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...
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Audrey Chin
Jul 27, 20133 min read
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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