Creative

A small interactive project for the chinamaxxing curious — it helps English speakers find a poetic Chinese name, each one drawn from the lines of classical Chinese poetry. Every name carries its own origin and meaning, while echoing the pronunciation of the individual's English name and their personal preferences.

A podcast I created with my six-year-old, where we share stories and our love of books with the youngest of listeners. Each episode brings a favorite tale to life for pre-schoolers — a gentle invitation into reading, read aloud with the warmth of a bedtime story. Making it together has let me relive my own experience as a kids' radio and television host in my childhood years, now through parenthood.

Consider it a Lonely Planet for the kids — a travel companion that turns every trip into a reason to read. The moon circles the earth — always close, always within reach — yet it keeps its own dance and movement, its own orbit. That's the spirit of Happy Moon. The child travels under a parent's care (chaperoned, safe, never alone), but still has room for their own sense of independence: to know where they're going and why, to explore and wonder, without having to be filled in by parents at every turn. Happy Moon is the companion that answers their questions — about the place, the people, the food, the words — so curiosity is met in the moment and the child gets to feel like the captain of their own little orbit. Close to the parent, but moving to their own rhythm.