Family update December 2023

I ended this blog in my last post but now I've changed my mind and going to continue to do some personal posts here. My other blog cynthiachinlee.com/blog focuses only on my breast cancer, diet, and health.

This year we went on many domestic trips (Los Angeles, Maui, Las Vegas, DC) and I bragged that I had not gotten Covid. Well, brag no more. Peter and I got Covid on our Oct. 2023 trip to UCLA to participate in Bruins Family Weekend. Not unexpected since we loosened up and ate at the De Neve dining hall with hundreds of unmasked college students! And yes we were boosted and got the Novavax vaccine in September 2023

On my visit to hometown Washington, D.C. I got to help take care of these adorable baby twins (Cyan and Gabriel, sons of my niece Alex with husband Byron). My sister-in-law Eleanor Chin-Lee took the photo.

Lucky for me, I got to see my lovely daughter Vanessa several times in Maui, Mountain View (CA), and DC. She's now settling in at Guanajuato, Mexico (a few hours from her Guadalajara place which she plans to keep and will continuef to rent). Here's a Maui photo of Vanessa and “beloved” Romain Tete, her colleague and friend, who is traveling with her now. If you guessed he’s French, you’re correct.

I traveled to my hometown, Washington, DC, for the sad event of my uncle Kenneth Wong’s memorial. He would have been 80. On the positive side, I’m grateful to my extended family and welcome Harvey Cummings, my uncle’s BFF (best friend forever) to the family. Here’s a photo of Uncle Kenny and me in 2012.

I continue to work on the anti-cancer book with Mark Simon and Robert Hoffman. If you know any editors or agents of non-fiction books, introduce me! I have the happy news of my last cancer check up earlier this week. The radiologists can no longer find the tumor. Here's the post, My 1000-day Journey or Honey, I Shrunk the Tumor