The View From a Broad podcast dives into my past, revisiting columns I wrote between 1993 and 2000, during the 40 years spent living in Hong Kong. They were featured in Hong Kong’s main news outlet, the South China Morning Post.

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These often funny, sometimes tender, occasionally provocative musings cover everything from marriage and working motherhood, to national identity and global events.
As a weekly columnist I aimed to capture the quirks of human interactions, carve up a few sacred cows and tell it like it is... but did I?

In the 30 years since those columns were written much has changed and...so have I!

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The result is an engaging and honest conversation about the evolution of social norms, culture and humor, re-examining the past through the lens of today’s values.

By looking back with compassion and curiosity, my hope is that The View From a Broad encourages reflection on how our perspective has changed... or not... and why.

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