These are my parents, Sandra and Joe, ages somewhere around 80 and 84. We don’t know for sure. Both of them were born into very poor families during war times, and their actual birth days were never recorded.
My climate non-story
By LiAnne Yu
Last week, I attended the 42nd Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Al Gore was our main instructor, spending hours each day helping us get familiar with his presentation, made famous by the film, An Inconvenient Truth. As trained leaders ourselves as well,
Blue state girl’s adventures in Trumpland
By LiAnne Yu
Photo: Frank Boston
Over the last couple of months I’ve visited three states that went solidly for Donald Trump: Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. My goal was to spend time with Trump voters, especially the white working class that overwhelmingly put him in office,
Dear Trump Voter (from the daughter of Chinese immigrants)
By LiAnne Yu
I am the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Both of my parents grew up very poor. My mom grew up in a one-bedroom home in Taiwan with nine brothers and sisters. Her dad fed the family by catching fish. When there were no fish,