These are blog posts I can’t recover unfortunately. RIP I’m sure they were bops.
Inevitable
I’m sure you all have heard about the mass shooting in Atlanta. Over the past few days, I’ve been reckoning with the fact that this too closely mirrors the nightmares I detailed in my blog post, Absence, that I wrote back at the beginning of this pandemic. While I’m walking my mind wanders. I’m being attacked on my morning walk. …
We should probably be a little more vegan
“Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.” Richard Powers, The Overstory Welcome to 2021 where I start off with an uncomfortable but necessary post. In my defense, I started this in 2020. Alright, get ready for this one. It’s not going to be easy but it’s one of my most important writings. I know my audience so I …
Don’t Buy Into Americanism
Ok ok I know I said I likely wasn’t going to post until the op-ed I’m writing with AJC gets posted but this has been boiling my blood and so I just need to write it out so I can focus on the AJC stuff. I saw this shirt on an Asian American celebrity I follow. I saw the shirt …
The Dying Tree
On my morning walks, I usually start listening to a podcast that I eventually tune out with my thoughts. Sometimes it’s mulling over work projects and coming up with new creative ideas in the morning light. Sometimes it’s fantasies of running off to a cabin in the woods with 3.5 dogs and a black cat. Sometimes it’s mornings like today …
Absence
I have felt that with everything going on with the coronavirus and anti-Asian sentiment that it has been obligatory for me to discuss it on my blog. Not obligatory out of some inherent duty because of my Asian-ness or obligatory because I have an audience that demands to hear it. Moreso obligatory because I know this is a turning point …
Repost: College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics
This is a repost of Eitan Hersh’s article, “College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics” published in The Atlantic. You can read it on their website here or read it below. I’ll post a new blog in maybe a few weeks but it will best read with this article in mind. “…college-educated people, especially college-educated white people, do politics as hobbyists …
Apocalyptic
I am currently writing this huddled under my covers Wednesday morning at 8 am. I’ve been up since about 6 and ate some oatmeal that I had soaked in water the night before to soften them up. I took it back into my bedroom where I moved my coffee table to the back wall so I could eat it huddled …
A win
There’s a lot I could write right now. This week has been such a long week. It’s fitting that I ended it with my Austin Justice Coalition group where we were able to just reflect and let out a collective sigh. Although, it wasn’t a sigh of relief. To be honest, it was a sigh of something akin to sadness, …
A Year Like No Other
The year is coming to a close and it feels like it’s still August. It’s weird that this year has felt very short and too long. It’s also weird that this year has been a globally awful year with loss, stress, and anger, and yet I have made so many friends and had such profound moments that make this year …
A hell of a week
I have the day off today. It’s Veteran’s day which is just perplexing because I don’t think I’ve ever had this day off. But our Canada team officially has it off because it’s Remembrance day for them so I guess our company just decided to let the US people have a day. I’ve been reflecting on this week which
Another boring blog post
It seems like the past ten blog posts have been me giving some updates about my life which probably gets a bit dull after a while. This will likely be the last big blog post dedicated to just updates in my life. At least for a while. Then I’ll do more insightful topical posts rather