How To Care For Your Hooman
Shi Min Xie Meow to ask for what you want.Position yourself in a comfortable place and wait.Breathe while you make a nest of your owner’s jacket. You own the space,not the other way…
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On being perfect
I’ve spent my whole life writing. When I was a kid, I kept a diary, detailing all the memories I wanted to recall when I got older. Every time I…
My accent and me
When I was a kid, I read a lot of books that had American slang and watched a lot of Hollywood movies. I remembered that my first movie experience was…
My ideal library
A friend and I were talking about the kind of libraries we would like to have if we ever owned a house one day. This is something of a pipe…
Why “Good vibes only!” and “Be happy” is unhelpful.
I am taking a break from this regularly scheduled programming to talk about this phrase, which I keep seeing so often. I get it. People want to be happy. We…
10 Reasons why Game of Thrones has nothin’ on ancient China
Warning: This post is not for children under the age of 12. Read at your own risk.
I have a new laptop, or being a writer costs money
To replace my old laptop, I have a new one. It is a rose gold MacBook Air. I’m an aesthete, so I want my glorified typewriter to be pretty. Some…
My laptop is dead
It is gone. After almost six years of serving me well, the machine did not detect the hard drive. On Friday, I was testing students to prepare them for their…
My favourite pens
One of my writer friends posted a rather extensive list of favourite pens online, which she said that she spent quite a lot of time reading. That got me to…
Favourite Villains
I was getting ready some materials for a webinar that I was supposed to do at work. I had to touch on character development, and I got to think about…