Lessons from my orchid plant“Baby! Come look at the orchid plant, it is budding!” My husband, who is never tasked with taking care of our house plants, exclaimed.Mar 3, 2024Mar 3, 2024
Grieving a vacation, againWhen we romanticizing a vacation, we can’t even tell it when it is not fun.Jan 19, 2024Jan 19, 2024
Why are we policing?The biggest romanticized word throughout my adulthood is ‘Freedom’. This abstract word can pit countries against each other, start…Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020
Reconnecting by Disconnecting from Social MediaI walked into the pottery studio in which I used to congregate with a group of folks from all walks of life: retirees, medical…Jul 3, 2020Jul 3, 2020
June GloomToday I am writing from a moment of nearly two weeks into a nation-wide protest regarding the systemic racism that is rotting the country…Jun 7, 2020Jun 7, 2020
A Zen approach to reconnect with the creative self after a long hiatusIn our current day and age of overloaded video recordings and selfies, I would think that looking at video footages and photo archives of…Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020
Not so Fast & Furious: Family is NOT everything.Being alive in the 20th and 21st century, the very unit, Family, that we are born into has morphed and transformed with our changing world…Mar 14, 2020Mar 14, 2020
“My cousin is buried near your cousin”Suddenly thought of a conversation I overheard of my Latina co-workers, " my cousin is buried near your cousin".Feb 22, 2020Feb 22, 2020
Inspired (not) by AfricaI came home after a month long in Kenya, and I was at work the next next day.Feb 22, 2020Feb 22, 2020
Unsubscribe from current affairsI had a fight with my husband yesterday about him not being responsive enough in giving me a helping hand when I asked him too. One thing…Feb 22, 2020Feb 22, 2020