I have always found comfort in words. When I was a young child, I had big feelings. (I see a lot of those big feelings mirrored in my very enthusiastic and lively 7 year old.) But big feelings don’t always have a place when a family is in survival mode and when the way to […]
Month: January 2023
Waves
Today, it has been hard to stay present. We had planned to get together with my in-laws to make dumplings for the new year. Then I woke up this morning to the news of the Monterey Park shootings and it felt like the world froze. I protect myself from grief. I am good at surviving. […]
Monterey Park
Growing up, as a Taiwanese American in a predominantly white Northern LA County suburb in the 1980s & 90s, outside of my family, Monterey Park WAS my connection to Asian American identity and the Asian diaspora in America. My single mother was not a fan of freeway driving so we only went to Monterey Park […]
Stillness, Happiness, Hope
It is a new year. For the first time in many years, in the first two weeks of this new year, I have been held, I have been hopeful, and I have been (relatively) still. I get stuff done. I am always running. I am often running from myself, from my fears. Sometimes, I am […]