Pause Stories

“The hardest pause and one of the longest pauses I've ever taken in my life was a pause on myself. Ever since I became a mother, me as QQ has taken a backseat.”    When I first started Semicolon Spaces focusing on pause stori…

"I realized that I put a lot of my own self-worth into the job" This was the biggest takeaway from Alisa Chopard’s story.  For many, our jobs define us – how we show up, how we feel about ourselves, how it looks on LinkedIn. A lay…

As young as five, I knew I wanted to be a news anchor. Every evening after our family dinner, I would watch the Chinese language news with my family. I would play pretend to be a news reporter, even set up my own anchor desk with scribbles as notes …