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Reflections on becoming

  • Late-night musings #24

    Saving money here and there eventually accumulates into an amount you won’t have a heart saving up overnight. The small things and the silent drips may initially seem inconsequential but they create opportunities if consistently pursued. Read more

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  • Being comfortable in your own skin

    Getting old and being married meant you have to accept two realities about finding comfort in being naked in front of: Read more

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  • A shift in workspace

    Location matters when you want to pursue productive work. I’ve been doing most of my academic and professional activities away from home, setting my state of mind that going home means rest. And so, working from home with familiar faces from childhood feels like working against the current—I have to exert more effort to focus Read more

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  • Digital identities

    It’s easy to judge others from a distance without truly knowing them because distance creates the illusion that they are unfeeling and disconnected from our shared humanity. No wonder we are tempted to be rowdy online where our online reputation seems trivial and disposable as we hide behind our glowing screens and are shielded from Read more

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  • We feel like drifters again

    I don’t know what went inside the mind of our little white furball when I put him in his travel backpack, along with his small black squirrel toy, and brought him outside to be carried away by a stranger to a cat-boarding house for the Christmas break. One moment, I roused him from his deep Read more

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jessa

Reflections on becoming

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