I went for my silly little daily walk the other afternoon and the air was so warm I immediately took off my coat. It was one of those endless moments, where the sun soaks into your skin like melting butter. And just for a second, you feel invincible. A superhero glowing from the inside out. […]
Month: November 2020
What It’s Like to Have Conflicting Thoughts About Your Own Race
This post was originally published on June 23, 2020. I tend to have a lot of conflicting thoughts about being Asian. I think that’s how my personal identity has always been. Conflicting. Not Asian “enough.” Not American “enough.” (I’ve had to learn to completely throw out the word “enough” because I now know that I […]
You and Me: On Losing a Child to Miscarriage
We pulled off the highway at a bleak rest stop just east of the Oklahoma/Texas line. We’d been trying to outrun my miscarriage for two weeks since my spotting began. Three days earlier, we saw our baby alive in an ultrasound and heard the humming of her humanity and might with a steady heartbeat of […]