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Fragile & Infinite

What do you enjoy most about writing? What I enjoy most about writing is the way…
The Quiet Goodness of Where I Am

When people ask me what I love about where I live, I often pause before answering.…
Why Gratitude Changes Everything

If you ask me what positive emotion visits me most often, I wouldn’t say joy, because…
When the Sky Turns Strange: My Kind of Emergency Plan

We like to believe we’ll see it coming—the storm, the quake, the moment everything shifts under…
LIVE A LIFE YOU WILL REMEMBER

Two nights in a row, the world outside slipped into dreams while I stepped into the…
Sorry, Not Sorry (But Actually… Sorry?)

I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “sorry.” Not the gut-deep one you say when…
The Kind of Change I Hope to Make

I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately—“What change, big or small, would you like…
The Keeper of Forgotten Things

I used to answer this question so differently. When asked what my life would look like…
I nourished the part of myself that had been hungry for home.

I nourished the part of myself that had been hungry for home. I’ve spent money on…
The Boy and the River—and the Things We Return too Late

Inspired by the true story of a children’s book returned to Torrington Library after 49 years…
The Beauty of Ordinary Moments

A quiet reflection on real happiness, the beauty of ordinary moments, and learning to notice joy…
An Evening Walk Through Smestow Valley

joy in small things Daily Prompt After a soul-satisfying Italian lunch at Fiume, my partner and…
Curious About the Unsaid

What are you curious about? There’s a certain kind of question that lingers longer than expected.…
The Last Visit

There are small kindnesses we offer in the everyday—blankets tucked over knees, water sipped through a…
When Grief Looms, Send Blooms

Was today typical? After waking up from a night shift, blurry-eyed and caught between two worlds—the…
I Exist in the And

That question used to make me uncomfortable. Not because I didn’t know who I was—but because…
Extinct Sleep and Sleepless Thoughts

If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be? None—for now, I just…
The Traditions That Faded, and the Love That Stayed

What I Let Go—and What Found Another Way to Stay Alive To be Filipino is to…
Two Tickets, Two Homes: If I Could Fly Anywhere

If I won two plane tickets—just two—I wouldn’t spend hours debating where to go. I already…
Each name lives in a different room of my life.

I’ve always believed that the names we carry are more than just words spoken out loud—they…
there is no one-size-fits-all to health.

It took me years to realize that “health” isn’t just the absence of sickness, and “well-being”…
Read Me Slowly: A Self-Portrait

There’s a peculiar kind of stillness that happens in the moments between question and answer—like the…
A Bowl Full of Home: The Comfort I Carry Across Oceans

What’s your go-to comfort food? There are days when comfort becomes a currency too rare. The…
Play Is Not a Luxury

I’ve always been quietly fascinated by the instinctive ways we retreat when the world begins to…
If I Could Change One Thing

If I could change something about modern society, I would not begin with laws or leaders…