Even the greatest of love stories eventually end. Not that mine is, or was. It was as messy as can be and not anything near perfect. But it was my love story. It's just not meant to be. What are you supposed to do when one just decides to up and leave you? When one …
Continue reading When I Find Myself Suddenly Single This Christmas
This time last year I was reflecting on the year that has passed, hoping for a better, more adventurous 2020. Little did I know that those hopes and dreams would be short lived. To say that 2020 sucks is an understatement. It was such an awful year that it felt like it both was the …
Death is inevitable. So is grief. And never in a short span of time did I ever imagine to experience those two in quick succession. One pulling you over your head, kowtowing you to the depths only to drown you again in sorrow; the other rolling in like a riptide, pulling you in an undertow when you thought you've broken through the surface. I lost my dad last night. And I didn't think it would hurt this much.
Where I look back and try not to get lost
It was 2002. I remember sitting down for my first job interview after moving here to the States in May. A young, fresh off the boat, newly grad from physical therapy school hoping to get her start in life. I don't remember much of the interview, to be honest. All I remember was that I …
Ah, 2018 you were quite the year. It started unassumingly, and for the most part, it was quiet on the forefront. Little did I know that some surprises along the way were in store for me. First off was graduate school. After two years of relearning how to be a student again, I finally got …
2017 has been a year of traveling. From the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast, this girl has racked up more frequent flier miles and have taken road trips more than the last two years combined. The month of May found me and my mom in the sunshine state of Florida. We stayed for a …
Two years in a row and it has never failed. It felt like the gods are mocking me, making me think that everything's gone to pass, and that I have completely exonerated it out of my system, and yet...
And yet.
It's 10 pm on a Wednesday night. Midweek lull before I need to really get started on the three board discussions that are waiting for me. The storm's passed and it seemed like we finally got a break from the incessant downpour and gusty winds. I've got my trusty blanket and I'm in my favorite …
2016 had been quite a year. It began with the quiet hope that all the heartaches and heartbreaks of the past year were left behind, and at the same time, the conviction that the coming year is going to be different. I decided to chase my dreams. I got accepted to the graduate program at …
The Audacity of Moi 