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Continue reading →: From Bunny Slopes to Ski Team in Three SeasonsI never learned to ski until I was an adult. So when my son was four, I put him in ski classes at Heavenly so he would never have to say no to a ski trip. Three seasons later, he just earned a guaranteed spot on the Palisades Mighty Mites…
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Continue reading →: Our ADEM Journey Continues: What Our Daughter’s 6-Month Follow-Up MRI RevealedAs much as I wanted this chapter to be behind us, it isn’t. Here is what our daughter’s 6-month MRI showed, what has been ruled out, and why we are now headed to Stanford Children’s neuro-immunology.
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Continue reading →: Our Family’s ADEM Journey: A Toddler’s Recovery Story from Acute Disseminated EncephalomyelitisOur 3.5-year-old daughter’s ADEM recovery story. From mysterious fever to diagnosis, treatment with steroids and IVIG, and full recovery from pediatric autoimmune encephalitis.
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Continue reading →: My Trilingual Journey: Growing Up Multilingual and Raising Multilingual KidsGrowing Up in a Trilingual Family Growing up in a trilingual family wasn’t always easy, but it profoundly shaped who I am today. At home, my siblings and I were only allowed to speak Chinese, but we switched to Spanish and English outside the house. Being one of the few…
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Continue reading →: Family-Friendly SF Bay Area Neighborhoods & School Insights 2025Deciding which parts of the Bay Area to settle down is a hotly debated area, and the discussion usually depends on each individual, couple, and family’s preferences and priorities. In the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to live in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Danville. Like…
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Continue reading →: Work-Life Balance for Parents: Choosing Between Startups and Stable CompaniesI often hear from people that if you want work-life balance (WLB), you need to work at a larger company that has a more or less 9-5 job. This advice especially resonates with parents with young children who are juggling family and career. My coworker, who recently came back from maternity leave, left for…
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Continue reading →: Transitioning from a Nanny to Daycare: Our Bay Area Family ExperienceLike all good things, they always come to an end. We hired a nanny who could take care of our now toddler daughter for a pre-determined timeframe. And our time to part ways has come. But we weren’t ready to part ways since our daughter wouldn’t start daycare for another…
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Continue reading →: Return to Office (RTO) and Career Decisions: My IBM Experience and Lessons LearnedRTO isn’t new. At least the term isn’t new to me, as I was ‘called’ back into the office in my mid-20s during my time at IBM, a corporation that was a pioneer in telecommuting since the 1970s. Many of my co-workers from various business units lived across the country—East Coast cities…
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