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Yellow Bird: Life as an Asian-American

Author’s Note: This article is from my published journal/memoir, Glass Bones and Paper Skin.

Fallen Warriors Memorial Gallery in Houston: Amazing Portraits!

Meeting the artist, Ken Pridgeon Sr., in person

The Catch, the Belt, and the Kiss in Dundrum

Four hurling matches that became a seminal moment in my life.

A Surprise Encounter With A Georgia River Dangle

An Ordinary Walk Turns Into A Very Specific Sighting

That Thing You Keep Not Doing

The Cost of Avoidance

Struggling to Write? Don’t Click on This Article

Trust me…Nothing good will come from it

A Thousand Deaths…and more

6 new poems

I Loved Being a Poll Worker

And who is Donald Trump to say we’re all crooks? Working in a crooked system? After 250 years, suddenly it’s not working? Bah, humbug.

Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella

Try to see the bright side in every situation

A Few Simple Changes that Instantly Improve your Storytelling

Small craft decisions keep readers hooked.

Time Fatigue: How Digital Connectivity Warps Our Perception of Time

Why constant connectivity leaves us feeling rushed, exhausted, and chronically out of time

Where I’ve Been

My year of cancer treatment

Late Night Thoughts: XYZ Has It Worse!

Some people focus on the misery in others' lives to make the same chaos in theirs feel more digestable... To say, "Well, it’s happening to…

Let’s Get to Know Some Stamps

Window into significant facets of other countries, Part 14

You Don’t Rise to the Level of Your Goals. You Fall to the Level of Your Systems.

What James Clear got right- and what most people miss about which system they’re actually running

The Letter I Hope No Child Ever Writes.

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3 Reasons Why Writers Should Ditch Headline Checkers

Let’s use our brains.

The More I Simplified, the More I Had

“Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify” — Henry David Thoreau

I Did It, The Monkey Is Finally Off My Back!

I published my first poetry book, after writing hundreds of poems

First: Find a Property

Then, make it pay for itself.

The Questions Publishers Ask That Catch the Writer

Prepare well before you submit your manuscript.

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Some people never do quite decide, and that’s all right

Welcome to the Casino del Medium

Where it’s us against the house

The Slow Creep of Normalization

The quiet way injustice becomes routine — and the loud work of undoing it

Burpees: The Explosive Exercise That Builds Strength, Power, and Cardiovascular Endurance

There are two versions of this exercise…

Living Consciously Means Paying Attention

Are We Living Unconsciously?

Day #3 of Intermittent Fasting and Other Random Stuff

I’ve been working on improving my titles, can’t you tell?

I Deserve Loving You!

I’ll Miss You Even Before You’re Gone.

A day at the Gym

People watching at it’s best

How to use food scraps to save money at the grocery store

Back in 2016, when I was a young college student, I could live on $40 for the week. I was proud that I could maintain a healthy, balanced…

Day #1 of Intermittent Fasting, or Whatever This Is

Follow along for the misery, I mean success!

I Bought a Swimsuit Today

Women’s Bodies are at the Mercy of Their Minds

Dear AI, I want my efforts to be ‘orl me own work’

Photo by Nahrizul Kadri on Unsplash

Arrival

Arrival is now

Little to Say

I ought to be silent

Garage Sale Survival 101

A personal tale of garage sale chaos and woe.

I’ve Got Corpse Confusion! Burial, Cremation or Deep Freeze?

And Will My Decision Matter?

Why does Finland love heavy metal?

Understanding one of Finland’s most surprising cultural paradoxes

Stop inventing new work

To avoid the important

Ten Thoughts on Tuesday, July 7th

Things I have to get out of my head

Bronze Age biotech: The story behind the world’s first hybrid animal

In The City

Choking on the dust

Why Les Misérables makes me Miserable!

And Why I Keep Going Back For More …

The Influencer

A modern “Twilight Zone” story.

Viral Spiral

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

From My Garden: English Cucumbers

The English are coming! That is, the English cucumbers in my garden — can you see them? Perhaps only the ever-watchful eye of the…

Daily Snippets for June 2026

a daily dose of odds and ends

Let’s Get to Know Some Stamps

Window into significant facets of other countries, Part 11

Carlo Ginzburg: the Man Who Wrote About the Real Witches in History

It’s said that history is written by the victors. Throughout his career Ginzburg wrote about the marginalized people of history

If Only Mirrors Could Hug Us.

Maybe my mirror would cry with me.