the sweetness of doing nothing
I’m sitting at a beachside café on Bingin Beach in Uluwatu, Bali, and I’m filled with a giddiness reminiscent of first-date jitters. I...
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- Jan 15
- 4 min
compounded holidays
There’s this stretch of time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s—that’s mimicked on a microcosmic level between Christmas and New...
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- Jul 9, 2023
- 2 min
tube thoughts
A collage of thoughts from tube rides in London over five weeks. See it. Say it. Sort it. That simple? double shot Tanqueray and Fever...
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- Jun 11, 2023
- 2 min
on being alone
I used to be really bad at being alone. In fact, I feared it. In high school, I would leave my house around 6:30 AM and stay out as late...
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- May 9, 2023
- 3 min
soonness (continued)
We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...
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- Apr 21, 2023
- 2 min
am i pretty?
“A theory: ‘Pretty’ has gone out of favor because we are greedy, and want the merely pretty to be fully beautiful, and so we go around...
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- Apr 6, 2023
- 4 min
first fifteen
9:24 AM | sunday “The whiteness of these waters is simple. They are elemental transparency. Like roundness, or silence, their quality is...
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- Mar 23, 2023
- 1 min
on soonness
We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...
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- Mar 15, 2023
- 1 min
nat
Pieces that should do the Should’s but pieces that so badly want the Want’s. Pieces that flirt with the beaten path and pieces that are...
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- Mar 2, 2023
- 3 min
big hands
So there’s this girl with big hands. Some people say “massive.” Certainly above average for girls her age. Puberty hit her early—in 5th...
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- Feb 22, 2023
- 2 min
a shot of ex-presso
A couple, who is no longer a couple—but at one moment of time, was certainly a couple—grab coffee. The girl starts. She is doing well....
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- Jul 17, 2022
- 5 min
so, what are you doing this summer?
A seamless follow-up question to “How are you?” in each summer-small-talk conversation. My response? Well, it seems to vary according to...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
things I like
I parked outside my childhood home the other Tuesday and started listing things I like. Here's what I wrote down: I like how every day is...
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- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
music, in a sentence
(This should take 3-ish min to read... just about as long as your favorite song... why not pause here and throw it on?) So my dog Lola is...
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- Jan 4, 2022
- 6 min
coca-cola
A testimony by Kathy Park, Buddhist teacher at Kwan Um School of Zen. Kathy currently lives in Seoul, Korea, so we spoke virtually on...
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- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
did u guys hu?
“It feels bad to be used, but the alternative is no one wants to use you, and that’s worse.” (Quote from NPR’s “Hookup Culture” Podcast...
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Brown, babe, you so smart and good to me
So enlighten me as to why I am allowed to go to a 5,000-person club fair where I'm amongst a Brown sea of almost entirely strangers, but...
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
the name game
But is there a more pointless exchange and waste of the English language than: "Oh, you grew up in [insert remote suburban town]? You...
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- Jan 4, 2021
- 1 min
find the good.
DMac is the guy you want comforting you when you're grieving over DMac's death. Funny how that works. A year ago today, Rivers lost it's...
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