Have you ever had a week that just didn’t turn out at all the way you had planned? Or maybe, it was a week that turned out exactly how you planned but took a strange detour that revealed something unexpectedly wonderful? This work week has been…well, it’s been weird. It started off somewhat normally, with […]
Month: August 2018
Sometimes You Open Yourself Up & You Break
I began this 40 day journey to my 40th birthday with reflections about my mother on Tuesday. Then, yesterday, I went to see Crazy Rich Asians with my dear friend Tami (I know, not opening weekend like most respectable Asian Americans, but in homage to my immigrant upbringing and increasingly introverted self, at a mid-week, matinee showing […]
Mommy and Me
My mom is by far the most influential person in my development. I say that she is the most influential person even though she died when I was 16, and I’ve now lived almost 2/3 of my life without her. This morning, on my habitual morning scan of Facebook, I came across this New Yorker […]
Finding my way home
It has been a long time since I’ve been an undergraduate. Over 18 years, to be exact. I was a student (on and off) for 10 years of those 18, but the application process has really changed since the mid-90s when I last applied to be an undergraduate. Today, after 2-hours fighting with the Cal […]