writing
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2026 Q1 – here’s what i found
I hate to break it to y’all, but we’re already a quarter into 2026. The year of the horse is galloping away. While I feel every day is mundane (go to work, get traumatized, and come home on the verge of having a meltdown and quitting), I have some updates that you might find interesting…
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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 itself with. Days feel monotonous in their routines revolved around…
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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 for a weekend, which was the perfect excuse to play…
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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 road trip from New York City to Atlanta and back. It was more of a…
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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 give their kids rides. Now as an adult I’ve come…
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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 amid rainy gusts. Spring is also a time for organizing…




