Jet lag is a bitch. It’s 2:54 am, and I am wide awake – eating the last pack of “kim” (seaweed) Kyeong-hee sent home with me. I’m sure the nearby H-Mart carries the same brand, though it won’t taste the same. I feel delirious. Maybe I should pop a Benadryl and hope…
Snapshots from Seoul
Made it back from Korea last night. Fighting jet lag and struggling to process everything. The words aren’t quite there yet, so I’m sharing a few photos instead. Maybe the third time’s the charm, but our time in Seoul this trip was my favorite so far. I hadn’t really had a chance…
Sneakers with Soul: CARIUMA
I was gifted a pair of sneakers by CARIUMA for purposes of this post. All opinions are my own.
It was this time last year that I decided to take a leap of faith and leave my full-time job. Despite fear and uncertainty, I knew there was a different way of doing things… telling stories, making an impact – one that wouldn’t require compromising values and losing pieces of myself. Reading…
How To Love Your Brokenness
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde I just returned home from a weekend writing retreat with my Dallas Public Voices fellows. We had been planning it for months, inspired by the generosity of a kind funder who offered…
A Reflection on Water
What is it about water that always stirs me so? How strangely opposite it is from air, I think to myself. You can’t live without either, but as you breathe in each – one sustains and the other drowns. How can either be more natural than the other if your survival depends…
10 Inspirational Quotes About Speaking Truth to Power
Friday. We made it. This week has been a doozy, and I’m running on the last of my fumes typing this post. My mind is exhausted from the mental gymnastics I’ve put it through this week trying to figure out how and why some people are able to remain so quiet and…