Wai Gong

(A creative piece written for one of my courses. Enjoy.)

Stature-wise, my maternal grandfather isn’t an imposing man. But even at eighty he stands straight as a pillar. Age has gotten to him; his head is shiny from years of baldness, his hands shaky from the winning combination of…

Love in the Time of Hookup Apps: A Personal Journey

Yep, I was one of those people. I went on Tinder looking for a relationship.

If you’re at all familiar with Tinder or all the humor surrounding the hookup culture, you probably get why this seems ridiculous. On an…

Explaining the Joke

(This is a piece I wrote for one of my classes, and have submitted to Smith College’s internationally-themed online publication, Global Impressions. The prompt was to write about a picture we had taken while abroad. I picked this one.)