Peggy Chan's Blog

I have crafted short read love stories, poems, children’s poems and books, as well as non-fiction books. Do read them, and I would appreciate it if you could leave a review of the book you chose to read.

This blog is a place for me to write about my ideas, about upcoming books, and about my life and writing. I hope that you enjoy reading it, and leave some comments for me!



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January 10, 2025

Dare to Dream

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney We all have dreams, whether we choose to admit it or not. Some pursue their dreams and make them come true. Others leave them as pipe dreams for reasons best known to them.  As Walt Disney said, “All our dreams can come true if we dare to pursue them.” Yes, I had many dreams; most remained pipe dreams, as I’m guilty of daydreaming. My mind goes off on different tangents, and these days, I can even doze off while reading something or doing something!! However, one dream did materialize, and that is being a self-published author!! I would never have thought I could do it!! After all, I had never heard of Amazon or Google, and the computer didn’t exist in my younger days. Neither did the internet. Then, things happened very quickly. Computers and floppy disks arrived! Slowly, through trial and error, I learned to self-publish on Amazon. Writing is my passion and I have a very fertile imagination. I daresay I live through my characters, and I have favorites among them! I always dreamed of being a witch with witchy powers […]
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August 30, 2021

Learning Requires Effort

Learning involves so many things. I thought I had left it all behind when I left school but another kind of learning had crept up. The internet was here and computers came into existence, followed by mobile phones, rather huge clumsy things unlike the sleek smart sophisticated phones of the present. I wanted to learn how to use a computer so I attended a couple of short courses but having a brain that is not wired to absorbing anything technical, I learned practically nothing. It was too complicated, with the computer language, loops and what nots. There were floppy disks which had to be slotted into the drives. Anyway, time passed and computers became smaller and cheaper. Then came laptops!! And the mobile phones evolved into smaller ones which you could keep inside your pocket. These gadgets were expensive and I couldn’t afford them. So, it was the old computer on which I hunched over for hours on end trying to get the brain to understand and learn. By trial and error I discovered how to create a blog on blogger.com using a very basic page. I had a few blogs because I wanted to try things out. Later on, […]
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May 30, 2021

Looking Back

Twenty one years ago I became a Christian. I wasn’t born into a family that embraced Christianity. In fact, our elders practiced ancestral worship and visited Chinese temples to pray on festival days. From a young age, I followed my maternal grandmother whenever she went to the temple to pray. She taught my siblings and I how to pray and what to say in our prayers during ancestral worship at home. Ancestral worship was a way of life for us. As we grew up, one of my sisters was introduced to a friend whose family encouraged her to attend church services and soon after, she became a Christian. Then two other siblings also got baptized. My late mother became a Catholic when she was in her late sixties, a long-cherished wish of hers, after my father gave his permission for her to do so.She taught me to say “Hail Mary” and to pray from young. Her faith was very strong. However, I continued to practice ancestral worship as did my brothers. How then did I become a Christian? When my mother and my two Christian sisters were suddenly stricken with deadly cancers, it dawned upon me that their Christian God, […]
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May 15, 2021

The Covid-19 Vaccination

Here’s a story which I would like to share with you. As we are all aware, these are stressful times with the Covid 19 pandemic ravaging the world. I too have my fears and anxieties. I registered for the vaccine in February and got my appointment in April. There had been lots of information and misinformation about the Covid vaccines circulating on the internet and it was frightening. The Pros and Cons of having the vaccine and the likely outcomes for people in the vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, especially those with comorbidities were terrifying. I fall into this group. Many thoughts crowded my mind, all beginning with “What if……”So, I set about writing a list of instructions to my daughter, what to do in case I was incapacitated or worse, kicked the bucket. Whatever I could do before D-Day, I completed. Included in the list was to inform friends and relatives via FB should the worst happen and then to close the account Fortified with prayers invoked by siblings, friends and church members, and with great trepidation I went with my spouse to get our jabs on the appointed day. After getting lost en route, we finally got […]
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