A Feel Good Email, My Favorite Cutlery, and Drowning Out the Trolls
May 31, 2022
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An ice cream truck and my little brother.
And I could visualize it, feel the sticky, sweet syrup staining my fingers, finding its way beneath my fingernails. I could see my brother’s face, a joker’s smile stretching out…
Should influencers get political??
Those who seek justice? Will their stories be tarnished by the bleak levers of the “creator economy”? What happens to them when they are left behind for a newer, shinier…
Can you be a runner if you hate running?
You see, the operative question isn’t what made me start running. It’s what makes me keep running.
Mental toughness: “Shifting the line” of your distress tolerance.
“You see,” she concluded, “there was a line I didn’t think I was strong enough to cross. But,” she paused to gesture with her hands, “I just shifted the line.”
Toxic Jealousy.
Having arrived at this breakthrough, I concluded that the answer could not be running over my fellow Korean American women, but running with them. In fact, making sure to cheer…
The “Non-Trad Wife.”
My mother was a non-trad wife. She worked as a nurse our entire childhood. As a result, my grandmother and later, even my father, did most of the “trad” things…
These pics of Lulu are GUARANTEED to make you smile!!!
Yesterday, a woman stopped me while I was walking backing to my car from an event to introduce herself. She was a follower on Instagram, she said. She particularly loved…
The Eggshell Skull
Note: This week’s musings relate to my struggle with disordered eating and body dysmorphic disorder. If you find this topic unsettling or otherwise uninteresting, you may want to scroll down…