Breaking the Silence…word for word
I know, I know. Where have I been? It’s been a whole month since I’ve uttered a word on this blog. That’s a first for me, since I’ve managed to keep my goal of two posts per month throughout the past year. Until now. Continue reading “(A Trip) Down Memory Lane”
The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them. We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them. – Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker
Well said, Kathryn Schulz. Well said.
It’s true that there’s nothing worse than the painful sting of regret but it can be far worse if you make it your mission in life to never have any regrets at all. Continue reading “Ted Talk: “Don’t Regret Regret””
I’ve been to a few cultural grocery stores: Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Vietnamese. After each trip, I’ve left feeling like I had just been to the other side of the planet.
There’s nothing like being enveloped by the sights, smells, and sounds of another culture; another life different than your own. Continue reading “A Whole New World”
When I was younger, virtually every minute of my free time (if I wasn’t sleeping, eating, showering, doing chores, or doing homework) was spent reading. Continue reading “Reading is Fundamental?”
It’s been quite a year for me, both as a writer and as a person. In two more days, it’ll be exactly a year when I launched this blog, a project I started with uncertainty but enthusiasm, which I’ve managed to keep up somehow even if not as frequently as intended. Continue reading “Keeping Score: Reflections of 2016”
The Fearless Wordsmith 