Why This $9 Hot Dog Was Worth It

Photo by Jessica Loaiza on Unsplash

✍️Why I’m In My Hustle Renaissance

a HUGE surprise, oops?

Brace yourselves for my hustle renaissance, but one I find much healthier and goal-oriented.

For the past five years, I’ve written about rejecting hustle culture for a number of…

[prompts!18] snoozing alarms, time, and age-related goals

come smash those silly little writer blocks…

In case you were curious what a century egg looked like in its shell

Whether salted eggs or century…

Reading Compilations

Top and Flop Articles from January 2023?

Come celebrate & give these some love?

I blinked and January zoomed RIGHT BY. Certainly, by the time I schedule this and this piece is published…

A little tidbit of joy. Our rice cooker is from the Zokirushi brand. It plays ‘happy birthday’ as a song when it begins to cook, and then again when it is ready to eat. I already love it when rice is ready to eat because I love to eat and I love rice, but the dance I get to do to the announcement song is the icing on the cake.

These moments are so precious to me: oden udon

Prepared to be hungry!

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Just had the most delicious shrimp tacos. Seafood tacos always have such a special spot in my heart.

If I could just capture these moments and hold them in my hands, forever. But I can’t. They melt as snowflakes. Gone, and into the world, ready to start another water cycle, and/or to nourish. Maybe these moments are meant to be the same.