https://miungleeson.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Miun GleesonenMon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/@em_gee/what-five-star-weekend-says-about-girlfriends-in-midlife-fc1ae61d8829For me, the most unbelievable part of the new book-to-tv adaptation Five Star Weekend is that a middle-aged woman has four friends.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/@em_gee/what-five-star-weekend-says-about-girlfriends-in-midlife-fc1ae61d8829https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63cf2c21b3cc952ff700b440/t/65f5bc6dc3c0660aa7be68d3/1710603373331/040223Connections.pdfHow a stranger stepped in to help my dying dad when I couldn't be there.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63cf2c21b3cc952ff700b440/t/65f5bc6dc3c0660aa7be68d3/1710603373331/040223Connections.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/images/e65fcb0d-16f7-4e96-97da-85cf9639105a.jpegMy fate was written all over my face. That’s what I was told by a mercurial, but well-meaning, great-aunt during my first trip to visit family in Korea when I was 10 years old.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/images/e65fcb0d-16f7-4e96-97da-85cf9639105a.jpeghttps://medium.com/@em_gee/love-grieve-and-press-save-fd831a660482What Netflix’s 'Voicemails for Isabelle' gets right about digital permanence and memory.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/@em_gee/love-grieve-and-press-save-fd831a660482https://medium.com/thebelladonnacomedy/parenting-subtitles-to-classic-works-of-literature-f008d6aa6fdfOnce more, with exhausted feeling.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/thebelladonnacomedy/parenting-subtitles-to-classic-works-of-literature-f008d6aa6fdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/uploads/07fcd51c-54ed-400b-a28b-2332b397224e.pdfMy fate was written all over my face. That's what I was told by a well-meaning great aunt during my first trip to Korea.Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/uploads/07fcd51c-54ed-400b-a28b-2332b397224e.pdfhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/asian-white-biracial-child-race-school_n_67b42912e4b011f6d4d8061cAs an Asian parent, you never forget your child’s first… race-related incident.Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asian-white-biracial-child-race-school_n_67b42912e4b011f6d4d8061chttps://slate.com/life/2025/02/kids-smartphones-videos-photos-storage.htmlMy kids press play and relive it all: the unmistakable lilt of their little baby voices, unsteady first steps, charmingly off-key renditions of Disney songs, and wary standoffs with anything remotely resembling a vegetable on their plateSun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://slate.com/life/2025/02/kids-smartphones-videos-photos-storage.htmlhttps://www.mother.ly/teen/bonding-over-make-up-with-sephora-tweens/I have just one thing to say to the influx of tweens and teens—including two I personally birthed—who are taking over Sephora: Wait for me!Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://www.mother.ly/teen/bonding-over-make-up-with-sephora-tweens/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/uploads/1c6f6fc1-9245-48ea-84cb-62aba93f31d9.pdfHow a stranger stepped in to help my dying father when I couldn't be there.Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/513985/uploads/1c6f6fc1-9245-48ea-84cb-62aba93f31d9.pdfhttps://pitheadchapel.com/end-scene/There was such a cinematic treatment to those last few weeks like the classic scene of me prostrating at the airline ticket counter to find another flight while travelers craned their necks to the peals of my pleas that carried throughout the terminal...Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://pitheadchapel.com/end-scene/https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/death-grief-technology-google-translate-kakaotalk.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitterWhen my dad died, he became part of the cloud. Not the one up high in the sky, but rather an online cumulus that now stores and archives a record of his last 18 months on earth.Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/death-grief-technology-google-translate-kakaotalk.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitterhttps://www.newsweek.com/parenting-mental-health-antidepressants-prozac-1780095My catastrophizing and constant handwringing were undoubtedly affecting my parenting style. The constant feeling of fraying at the edges compelled me to finally prioritize my mental health, so last year, I tentatively jumped on board with antidepressants and haven't looked back.Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.newsweek.com/parenting-mental-health-antidepressants-prozac-1780095https://medium.com/@em_gee/this-is-why-mini-van-moms-are-pumped-about-the-halftime-show-90f5a5b8a4fcWhen the NFL announced the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show lineup, there was a collective AW YEAH from a legion of 30 and 40-something moms in America.Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://medium.com/@em_gee/this-is-why-mini-van-moms-are-pumped-about-the-halftime-show-90f5a5b8a4fchttps://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/how-the-progressive-subtext-of-netflixs-the-baby-sitter-s-club-is-right-for-this-cultural-moment-4eb25993be45On the aspirational effect of watching these pre-teens today.Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/how-the-progressive-subtext-of-netflixs-the-baby-sitter-s-club-is-right-for-this-cultural-moment-4eb25993be45https://medium.com/slackjaw/taxonomy-of-people-who-try-to-pronounce-really-hard-names-you-guys-147f5faae196Names can be really hard, people.Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/slackjaw/taxonomy-of-people-who-try-to-pronounce-really-hard-names-you-guys-147f5faae196https://medium.com/frazzled/whats-in-my-bag-toddler-edition-e447f120f40eMy fellow toddlers and I don’t need much to get through our day. Really, just the necessities: a fistful of Goldfish crackers and a clear path for destruction.Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/frazzled/whats-in-my-bag-toddler-edition-e447f120f40ehttps://www.pointsincase.com/lists/what-writers-are-like-based-on-stock-photos-of-writersAs you can tell from our tortoise shell glasses, we all suffer from poor vision (shout out to those with astigmatism, too).Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pointsincase.com/lists/what-writers-are-like-based-on-stock-photos-of-writershttps://www.businessinsider.com/my-house-messy-because-i-let-my-kids-be-kids-2022-3A pristine house doesn't rank at the top of my priorities as a parent. There is messy, incriminating evidence of child-rearing in my house, and I'm largely OK with it. But I can understand the underlying sentiment from other parents who feel strongly about a tidy house.Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.businessinsider.com/my-house-messy-because-i-let-my-kids-be-kids-2022-3https://capsulestories.com/reading-for-fun-and-other-antidotes-to-grief/My therapist’s recommendation to read for fun was rooted in the aim to give myself some grace by not letting my one pastime be a pain point, unnecessarily.Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://capsulestories.com/reading-for-fun-and-other-antidotes-to-grief/https://insightintoacademia.com/law-schools-support-criminal-justice-reform-by-empowering-inmates/May 2020 marked the first time in the Law School Admission Test’s (LSAT) 73-year history that law school hopefuls could complete the exam from the safety of their own homes after officials moved it online to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://insightintoacademia.com/law-schools-support-criminal-justice-reform-by-empowering-inmates/https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/hidden-language-of-fathers-and-daughtersLess talking, more doing. My personal perspective of the relationship between fathers and daughters has always been in this spirit of more show and less tell.Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/hidden-language-of-fathers-and-daughtershttps://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/prefer-raising-daughtersI prefer raising girls. I hoped for them pretty hard. But it’s not because I don’t like boys. The reasons I like having daughters has very little to do with the gendered assumptions about them.Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/prefer-raising-daughtershttps://www.muthamagazine.com/2020/09/an-inheritance-of-pain/I became mother-less six weeks before I became a mother. I was informed my mother no longer wanted to be in my life, the culmination of several months of her increasingly distant behavior.Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://www.muthamagazine.com/2020/09/an-inheritance-of-pain/https://bluntmoms.com/is-it-creepy-how-much-i-love-my-ob-gyn/In praise of a vital relationship all women should have.Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://bluntmoms.com/is-it-creepy-how-much-i-love-my-ob-gyn/https://www.popsugar.com/family/why-i-think-i-can-maintain-my-long-distance-mom-friendships-47504203Some people will say that mom friends can only operate at the most superficial level, reducing it to shared sidewalks and soccer schedules. But I'm going to disagree because I think my mom friends are essential, and not just because we can trade war stories on how tiny humans exited our body.Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://www.popsugar.com/family/why-i-think-i-can-maintain-my-long-distance-mom-friendships-47504203https://community.thriveglobal.com/on-the-optics-of-parenting/How protest and pandemic will fundamentally change the way our children see us.Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://community.thriveglobal.com/on-the-optics-of-parenting/https://community.thriveglobal.com/how-memory-has-everything-to-do-with-my-motherhood/When it comes to how I raise my kids, there is one powerful guiding principle I hold dear: My kids are going to remember this one day.Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://community.thriveglobal.com/how-memory-has-everything-to-do-with-my-motherhood/https://insightintoacademia.com/veterinary-schools-rethink-standards-for-students-with-physical-disabilities/Becoming a veterinarian requires a great deal of physical stamina, with students often having to prove their ability to restrain animals and complete other strenuous tasks in addition to having the manual dexterity to conduct complex medical procedures. For students with physical disabilities, these requirements have traditionally served as a barrier to careers in veterinary medicine.Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://insightintoacademia.com/veterinary-schools-rethink-standards-for-students-with-physical-disabilities/https://insightintoacademia.com/equity-in-higher-education-requires-equal-access-to-dual-enrollment-in-high-school/Dual enrollment programs, also known as dual credit or concurrent enrollment programs, have in recent years become a mainstream pathway to higher education for high school students.Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://insightintoacademia.com/equity-in-higher-education-requires-equal-access-to-dual-enrollment-in-high-school/