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 […]
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, […]