The Library Page
The “Gap Year” In 2018, I gave up a role in a corporate setting to care for a small child and pursue writing. I knew that making a living as a writer would be tough; I just didn’t know how tough, and a year later, I had to swallow my pride and reboot my search […]
Why I Can’t Have Caffeine Anymore
Trigger Warning: This post touches on my personal experience with self-image issues and an eating disorder I didn’t always have self-image issues. From the beginning, I knew I was beautiful, like join-and-win-beauty-pageants beautiful. But I was a brainy girl who grew up around a certain kind of people—the kind with something against the mixing of […]
Mourning in Motion
I lost my grandfather two days before Christmas. Three nights ago, I cried to my husband. I had this dreadful feeling from what the family group chat had been reporting on my grandfather: he stayed awake from a nightmare at 2AM; with his blood pressure at 170/90, he complained of difficulty breathing, yet refused hospital […]
She’s So Unusual
On my first day as a transfer student in sixth grade, the teacher asked me to introduce myself. For a fun fact about me, I shared how I had been idolizing a soap opera actress. The classroom swelled with mocking laughter. I got marginalized on my first day. What seemed cool to me was considered […]
My Writing Journey
Writers are superheroes in their own way; I, too, had a few villains, who all made me believe I wasn’t good enough to write.