by admin | Jan 31, 2019 | Creative Writing
It was finally Friday night, two weeks into the new school year. At nine o’clock, I was already exhausted. I had also realized that day that my period was late. Very late, in fact. I figured that the stress of a new school year had thrown off my cycle. But I...
by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Asian American Identity, Eating Disorder Recovery, Personal
I went to New York last weekend to meet with the incoming and outgoing executive teams of Mochi magazine, where I have somehow found myself as editor in chief. Besides my standard imposter syndrome (I’ve never taken a single journalism, marketing, or business...
by admin | Jan 15, 2019 | Asian American Literature
My favorite challenges, of course, are the ones that reward me for something I’m already doing. (This is one reason I sometimes write finished tasks on my to-do list so I can pre-emptively check some off.) So I’m participating in the Year of the Asian...
by admin | Jan 14, 2019 | Asian American Identity
h/t my pal Chris Paek for the genius wordplay “As I Am” You would think that being an Asian American writer would come naturally to me. After all, my parents are Taiwanese immigrants, l was born and raised in the U.S., and I write things. But accepting...
by admin | Jan 7, 2019 | Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating disorders are not a choice, let me be clear about that. But l have found that traveling the road to recovery requires a constellation of big and small choices every day. I have been able to gain the mental endurance for those choices–somewhat...
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