​AUDREY CHIN 

This week’s headlines haven’t been encouraging – Chinese political appointments, White House firings, school shootings, old Russian spies fa

Last week, I made a hole in a fence. Guess what? It was no_big_deal. I realized – we take fences too seriously

Will insects fly into your mouth if your child is too obedient

I’m drunk with words. My nephew, the artist and poet, is visiting with his family. We’ve been indulging in artsy-fartsy conversation,...

No pictures, just some words describing a scene while waiting for a flight in the domestic terminal at Yangon Airport. They were five ...

I was reading in Myanmar. It was my time, my panel appearance at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival with Canadian literary prodigy Karen...

Believing in magic, we’d hide these found treasures between the pages of our text books, sprinkling bread crumbs over them to feed them....

Our writing-dieting selves like to think we’re all frontal lobe, all about visioning, reasoning, planning and problem solving. But hidden...

You can love a place before you see it.  A place you continue to hold in your heart even after you know it, faults and all. That’s the...

It’s February already and I haven’t thanked you all enough for your support of Oddznns –  for dropping by and commenting, for...

What’s our’s The areca clad hills scrolling past the windows The marbled gorge The fertile land We can’t own it Nor even the hours ...

Photo Credit: Sarah Monagle Well, the mid-Autumn festivities have come and gone.  The moon’s shrinking ing again.As it goes away, I’d...

Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival.  The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camyluna 13th day of the 9th moon of the year of the water dragon.It’s raining again. Unless...

Full moon through stained glass Photo Credit: http://www.wilandra.com 12th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon … and what...

11th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon. Photo Credit: John Garozze http://www.jagwah.blogspot.com Tonight it was...

10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and...

8th day of the 8th moon of the year of the Dragon. We start with the verses of the most unaccomplished – mine. Photo Credit:...

.I wrote a post the other day about how a diagnostic profiling tool called Emergenetics could help improve communications dramatically....

It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the...