Over the past week, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my cousin’s three daughters Halia (14), Kaiena (11), and Naleia (7). They live in Michigan so I usually never get to see them, but now that I have some time to spare I’ve finally been able to hang out with them while they…

Back in March when Sandra visited me from Germany, I had this weird itch to buy a cajon. Normally I am pretty frugal and don’t like to spend money on things I don’t need, but this particular situation was unique. True I just wanted to buy the cajon to mess around with it, so in…

So… my grandma is 87. Standing at around 4’10” she looks exactly like your run-of-the-mill, cute old Asian lady. We go for a walk everyday around the block and it’s hilarious because by the time we get home she is completely hunched over and looks like she is continually falling into her next step. Ok,…

Ok, I may have gotten a bit ahead of myself by ending the last post saying “the future looks feminine.” In the aftermath of reading that book I was in a partial state of reverie that heavily colored my language, but then again I don’t even think I asserted much of anything in the last…

Although this was a classic book by Betty Friedan that spearheaded the second wave feminist movement in the 60’s, I admit that I’ve never actually read it and I just want to respectfully tip my hat to acknowledge it. With that in mind, however, there’s something extremely compelling about the phrase “feminine mystique” that I’ve…

Who knew the view from down here could be so beautiful? Maybe that’s why it’s so difficult to recognize even when it’s right in front of our faces. It’s not always the fire and brimstone, hellish images conjured up by ancient Greek mythologies or the Christian tradition.  In fact, I don’t think we go there…

I took a bit of a hiatus from writing in my blog since my old format seemed… stiff. Restricted. They all sounded like book reports, and although the books were interesting to me I don’t think I was very good at relating them to other people who might read them. Looking back on the stats…

On Friday, a coworker asked me if I had any plans for my birthday over the weekend. It was just normal work chit-chat as we were passing in the bathroom, nothing more. Without much thought, I stated that I didn’t have any plans since I had my fill from the holidays. I think I caught…