When I say “the news”, you must know what I mean? It’s everywhere, seeping into every conversation and every post I see online. I’m not here to complain, but to tell you that we might […]
Category: Life
Things related to my personal life.
Thanksgiving as an Immigrant Family
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Every year amidst the warm chaos of Thanksgiving, I look around at my family and think, “How the heck did we get here?” There are many answers to that. How did we get here physically? […]
Walking with a Toddler
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My day to day life involves chasing after a little girl who requires me to have a lot of energy to match hers. Being a parent is hard in a million ways that I never […]
We’re all too busy
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Have you noticed that when you ask someone how they’re doing, one of the common responses is “busy”. I’m guilty of that. It’s not always a complaint. Sometimes it’s not that we’re too busy for […]
Let’s talk about memories
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When I wrote this in 2014, there was a viral momentum that pushed memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease into the national spotlight. Then, and even now, the United States had a problem that basically needed […]
Seeing Orion’s belt
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Before we started as freshman in high school, my class was sent on a weekend trip outside of New York City. It was then that I got to know my best friend and several other […]
On defining yourself: ‘Throw Things to the Flood’
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What makes you, you? People tend to compare themselves to others at different stages of their lives. Sometimes these comparisons can help us set goals and find confidence in our identity. You might have seen […]
Destroy history and you destroy humanity
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It was pretty alarming to read that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, and killed an archaeologist who had looked after it for 40 years. To be honest, I had never heard […]
Get an angry call from the IRS? It might be a tax scam.
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A few months after last year’s tax day, my mom told me that she got a call from an abrasive IRS agent saying that my dad owed money on his taxes. This man called their […]
Honoring Grandma: Parkinson’s Disease Research Now
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When I was about nine or ten years old, my grandmother came to live with us. I had never met her before. For all this time she was a distant relative living with my uncle […]