I am a thinker and a writer, a mom and a wife, an entrepreneur and a cook. The order of my roles changes depending on the day and the moment. Professionally, I spent about a decade as a journalist, mostly as a newspaper food writer, first for The Denver Post and then for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In the summer of 2007, I left the newspaper business to explore my inner entrepreneur as the partner of a public relations/communications agency.

The "Chinese Soul Food" blog serves as a journal for me to share my stories about cooking Chinese meals at home and a record of my evolving recipes.