New Beginnings This August, I started my first semester of grad school! It’s something I contemplated ever since I started making a series of positive changes to my way of living with the help of an incredible therapist five years ago. Since then, I moved out of my abusive parents’ house, began my first ever […]
I picked up a copy of this on a whim at my neighborhood bookstore, Black Bird. One of the employees highlighted it as a highly impactful read. My ADHD makes it difficult to finish a book; I often bring books on my trips and return home with the bookmark still peeping out from the same […]
âJenny, do you remember the party when you said that my brother bullied you so much in middle school that you cut yourself?â Mark’s cousin questioned me with her arms crossed and eyebrows raised. âN..no, I donât remember saying that. But that did happen.â I felt my stomach sink. The discussion started with a question […]
13 miles sauntering through coniferous forest, 3 black bears, 7 shooting stars, the Milky Way, Jupiter’s rings, one comet, and a view of Half Dome that literally took our breath away (thanks to 2400 ft of elevation gain). We treated ourselves to this over the weekend as a perfect transition to a new season. While […]
Iâve never really been one to share much about my life with others, so blogging goes against everything I was raised to do. My parents were born and raised in Shanghai, a city that currently has 27 million inhabitants. In order to succeed in the PRC you must fight for yourself at all costs. This […]
It’s a joke because nothing I write is ever brief đ That’s why I migrated from pen to keyboard! I will split this into two parts for my brain’s sake and for readability; the first part will encompass high school through college, and the second part will be the juicy corporate life that follows. I’ve […]
I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat and a fog in my head. “Well, my time to succumb to the rona has finally come,” I gloomily accepted. I chugged an Emergen-C, ate an omelette atop toasted challah, cleaned my room, and went right back to sleep. Upon reawakening, I drank the Irish breakfast […]
