Sep 19, 2021Member-onlyThe pandemic changed what I felt about gamingI got back into gaming during the pandemic. Gaming became a means to spend quality time with my wife while sheltering in place under lockdown. We were Mario and Princess Peach in Super Mario 3D World navigating fiery lava pits, rebounding on bouncy castles and running from cute-yet-deadly turtles that…Gaming9 min readGaming9 min read
Feb 19, 2021Member-onlyWhy Hades is so hellaciously addictiveIt’s not just because the characters are … hot. — It’s 4AM. I’m in bed. I know I have a meeting in six hours. Hades flickers into the darkness from my computer screen, tempting me to play again. I’m an adult. I know the responsible thing to do. I rub my…Hades7 min readHades7 min read
Apr 19, 2020The powerful simplicity of the Apple Watch’s Close Your Rings initiative“Three rings: Move, Exercise, Stand. One goal: Close them every day. It’s such a simple and fun way to live a healthier day that you’ll want to do it all the time. That’s the idea behind the Activity app on Apple Watch.” — Apple. While we’re all stuck at home…Apple Watch4 min readApple Watch4 min read
Jun 12, 2019Member-onlyWhat makes a classic a classic?An ode to Chariots of Fire and thoughts about how we define a classic. — “(Nagasawa) was a far more voracious reader than I, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least thirty years. “That’s the only kind of book I can trust,” he said. “It’s not that I don’t believe in…Books4 min readBooks4 min read
Published in P.S. I Love You·Apr 9, 2019Member-onlyWhat I’ve Learned From Suddenly Becoming A Cancer CaregiverWe’re all living on borrowed time — People react in three distinct ways when I tell them my mother has stage 4 liver cancer. “I’m so sorry to hear that”, while their voices take on a hushed, grave quality — tones you reserve for the bedside of the dying. Silence. Their brows furrow. I can almost hear their brain furiously churning; trying to figure out what to say next “Stay strong” I’m sure it’ll…Cancer6 min readCancer6 min read
Feb 26, 2019Member-onlyTo what lengths would you go, to be thin?Book Review of Fitness Junkie — Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza — Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza Published by Doubleday on July 11, 2017 Genres: Fiction, Humor Pages: 304 Format: eBook Goodreads Rating: 3/5 Janey Sweet, co-founder of wedding dress company B has committed a mortal sin. She’s fat. And was caught on camera eating a ‘bruffin’ — “the lovechild…Health4 min readHealth4 min read
Feb 5, 2019Member-onlyNowadays, I See My College Classmates More Often At Weddings2019 marks the 10 year anniversary of my graduation from college. — I never really thought about keeping in touch with classmates. Whether it was bonding over the shared adversity of the undone assignment due the next morning or swapping strategies for tests, common topics were simple to find. This ease of connecting extended beyond academics. Bitching over weird classmates, exchanging notes…Friendship4 min readFriendship4 min read
Published in Creative Sparks by Joshua Poh·Jan 20, 2019Do You Know How To Think?Creative Sparks #23 — Hey everyone, Lots of reflecting about thinking today. Something we think we all do from day to day, but are we doing it correctly? Eye-opening. 7 stories I felt like sharing on this week 1. Crimes of Grindelwald: A case of too little and too much by Lavanya Lakshmi Narayanan The trials of being a Potter fan in the ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’ era Should we be hating Crimes of Grindelwald or patiently wait for the franchise to redeem itself?medium.comHarry Potter5 min readHarry Potter5 min read
Jan 16, 2019HandsI saw my mother’s hands up close for the first time in a long while. Corded sinews, thick and veiny I noticed the loose folds, slackness in the skin Yet her fingers remained taut and strong It must be the forty years of piano playing The months of conjuring up…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Jan 15, 2019Book Review: A Motherland’s Daughter, A Fatherland’s SonA Russian translator falls in love with a young German officer during the short-lived 1939 Soviet-German alliance and Hitler’s subsequent invasion of Russia. Can their budding relationship endure the horrors of a long, ghastly war? Even if you are forced to shoot at each other? Ellie Midwood has made her…War4 min readWar4 min read
