June was wild. Most of my friends and family have been vaccinated for at least a month and restrictions have eased up and so we started seeing more folks again. After one and a half years of isolation, any event planning would have been dramatic, but this month was a whopper. Multiple camping trips, I…
I don’t know if it’s always been the case or it is a natural progression from psychology books, but if you noticed I’ve been reading more self-help books lately, I guess that’s true. I mean, I already read professional development books in general, so I was practically already drinking tea in the living room of…
Updated some things on May 26, 2021 I was definitely a graphic designer at one point. In fact, I was pretty insistent on that fact for a while because I had been an English major before and was trying to get design work. So if you thought that’s what I do, that’s totally fair. It’s…
My introductory rant this week is on a new fact about Amazon that makes me angry: Amazon prohibits digital books it publishes to be available to libraries. It is the only publisher that does this. Turns out, the tech giant has also become a publishing powerhouse — and it won’t sell downloadable versions of its…
My partner has gotten into the habit of walking behind the couch to see what I’m doing on my computer. Usually it’s because I’ve been totally zoned out letting the glow of the screen give me life. Usually it’s because I’ve been this way for hours. “Again?” he says. “You don’t know me,” is my…
I knew this month that I wanted to keep reading fiction books, but I also have been trying to read more books by Asian authors. It crossed my mind that it feels like…like I would hesitate to recommend a book with Asian characters to my friends because I fear it would kind of come across…
We were generating a list of jargon today and it reminded me of this list I started two years ago when I worked in big tech of words I wish I didn’t know and use. As someone who enjoys linguistics and knows that words move through cultures, I shouldn’t be judge myself as harshly as…
This month I kind of let recommendations take me where I would, for the most part. I had left over recommendations from last month that finally came in from the library, recommendations from colleagues, and a book club book. The most spontaneous book was on investing because I kind of feel like I’m not doing…
I learned recently that the word for celebrating lunar near year in Vietnamese is “an Tet,” which translates to “eat the New Year” (or more humanly “eating in the new year”). I think I might have had a hot pot during grad school and I went to the festival when I lived in New York,…
My seventh annual Valentine’s Day are part of a balance diet. I hope you’re not planning on leaving the house without your most important feel of the day! <<< Printable download >>> I love breakfast foods and what better to celebrate that love than creating Valentine’s day cards around the theme? A lot of thanks…
