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[Clarification: Sorry. I’ve been sleeping 4-5 hours per night for about two weeks straight. It leads to…incomplete…thoughts. The point of mentioning aunts and uncles in yesterday’s post is that [...]

Reflections on being an only child: ONE: Very little went unnoticed in my childhood. I like to phrase it this way because the stereotype that only children are “spoiled” never really sits right [...]

Hanshi tells me that before I can test for Yonkyu (purple belt), I need to pass the Pine Tree Test. I’ve been working toward this on a small scale for about a year. But with Hanshi’s suggestion [...]

I woke up this morning after two consecutive nights of fantastic sleep and felt like a flip switched in my brain. Onward and upward, my morning mood seemed to say—and thank god for that! I [...]

I think I just came up with the best dessert, ever. The best dessert, that is, if you’re officiating a wedding in six weeks and need to stay the EXACT weight you are or, better yet, lose 5 [...]

I try to research formal studies on writers’ brains but all my searches either lead to links about “writer’s brain” from over-focusing or articles about obsessive compulsive disorder. I consider [...]

There really are other things to think about. Like the kind of green that settles across these hills in June. It’s no longer a spring-lime green. The view from my house does not include the [...]

You think for a moment that kissing is like caffeine. It is addictive. It heightens the senses. It causes circular thinking under the guise of a rational optimism. Like trying to make the perfect [...]

You decide that whether or not he is going to the gallery opening, you will look effing hot anyway. Still, if he’s there, it can’t hurt to look this good. You wear your rip-off version of a J. [...]

A short-short that I wrote a while ago has come back to haunt me in the best possible way. Like an “itch that won’t scratch,” it continues to unfold and expand on the page. It’s hitting me in [...]