To read Part 1 of the Micah 6.8 series: Never productive enough. “Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as our homes more and more resemble motels. ‘Life is not very interesting,’ we seem to have decided. ‘Let its satisfactions […]

Summer is such a time of transition and with back-to-back weeks of people visiting followed by me immediately jetting off to Atlanta for the Emerging Apologists Program and now Toronto for a research conference, I’ve been feeling the lack of routine. But, routine or not, […]

I haven’t done a series in a while, in fact since I did the farming series back when I launched the blog.  But, last weekend, I was in New York City for a friends’ wedding and had some good conversation with college friends about the […]

after writing the post on my grandfather, I realized how much I enjoy writing about my cultural past and started to sift through some of my writing published on the blog I ran during my time in China. I found a few gems that I […]

Fong Hing was his name. The road sweeper, that is. His olive sun-burned face was always gently kind, creased in with wrinkles too old for his actual age, although no one really knew what that was. What we did know for sure was that when […]

So it’s the last day of April 2019 and I’m determined to give you guys the run-down of my past two months before crashing into bed. It’s been a pretty crazy last couple of weeks, with visiting my sister in SF, seeing Erin/Nahrie in Chicago […]

This baby sweater was knitted as a stress response. It was 10:30a.m. on a Monday morning and I was home, instead of at lab. My project left at the desk of an overworked organic chemist, while I sat in my grey rolling chair, unable to […]

Meredith Grey (Voice over) No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of okay. We all think we are going to be great.  And from the day we decide to be surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we […]

  These past few months have been packed. I mean, there was that backlog due to my reluctance in publishing my last post on singleness and so, my list for this “what I’m into” just kept building up. But, I did want to share the books/articles […]

I really didn’t want to write this post. I had opened a document with my musings on the issue on December 30 of last year, but since then, the post had still not been written. Neither had I written anything else substantial since, unless you […]