Category: Personal
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 2: Yin / Yang

The Chinese characters for yin and yang hold many meanings, but nobody on the Internet can seem to agree about them. According to the dozen or so websites I skimmed in preparation for this theme, they represent moon and sun, dark and light, feminine and masculine, earth and sky. What holds across all of these…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 1: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink”

Today was the first day of my new life as a fashionista: at least, that’s what I reminded myself of as I dragged myself to the shower this morning…
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February Fashion Challenge: Introduction

Hi, world! I have a confession: I’m 27, and I still feel like I don’t know how to dress myself. There are a lot of reasons why I ended up this way. First, there’s the experience of growing up in a household where most of my clothes were donated to me by my older cousins.…
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2022: a reflection

On paper, 2022 is not an year where I accomplished very much. I did not study enough Spanish to become fluent. I basically completely gave up on running. I fell two books short of my 15-book goal on Goodreads. I wrote, like, two blog posts and one poem outside of work. And I discovered that…
