hello and goodbye
“I don’t know why you say, ‘Goodbye,’ I say, ‘Hello, hello, hello.’” The Beatles Please excuse the MIA status since September. The past three months have been a blur of job applications, interviews, birthdays (mine and my sister’s), and the usual curveballs that life presents…
august: staycations in nyc
August is the final stretch of summer. While many people go on last-minute vacations before school starts, I stayed local, and it turned out to be a packed month in New York. Be Our Guest My sister and I hosted a friend visiting from Atlanta…
july: roadtrip, birds, and solitude
Hello, friends. With July wrapping up, it’s getting closer to the end of summer. A lot happened this month for me. Let me tell you about it. At the beginning of the month, my family and I went on a roadtrip from New York City…
june: summertime for grown-ups
I have barely two days left to write a monthly newsletter before June closes. The month flew by! School is officially out–fun and relaxation for kids, but stress for parents trying to keep them busy and entertained. As children of an immigrant, my sister and…
may: “steady as the rain”
It’s been a rainy week in New York. I used to dread the rain growing up in Georgia because I often had to walk home from school carrying a heavy backpack and a giant art portfolio–one of the struggles of having immigrant parents who couldn’t…
the beginnings: april newsletter & introducing the rebranded blog
After a few dormant years, this blog has been dusted off and reopened for a fresh start. The timing couldn’t be more fitting. It coincides metaphorically with the beginning of spring, a season of waking up from hibernation, seedlings emerging, flowers blooming, and petals falling…
the renaissance woman 