mental illness
We do not always hit the water
Three generations of women stand at the edge. In this essay, I trace grief, inherited silence, and a last promise to live
My TBR pile just keeps growing lol
My morning coffee left a gift on my reading journal 🩵
events
29 June 2026 | Mingei Museum (San Diego, CA)
Time: 5/6PM
books
Shine for the Fat Lady
A personal essay-style review of Salinger's Franny and Zooey—exploring art, ego, love, and how this book changed my entire life path
now
April 2026
✨ Constellation. Manuscript is all done! Interior formatting done! Angela sent the first draft for the special edition cover, and it&
events
28 March 2026 | Coronado Public Library (San Diego, CA)
Time: 9 AM - 6 PM
books
The surprising thing Taiwan Travelogue taught me about myself
A review of Taiwan Travelogue and the surprising personal reckoning it sparked—on colonialism, nostalgia, and loving a homeland you've also exoticized
books
The River has Roots
by Amal El-Mohtar
books
A River from the Sky
by Ai Jiang
I got a deep paper cut while looking through a children’s K-Pop Demon Hunters book.
Guess my mom was right all this time.
I’m a demon.
family
How to Love Your Mother
A daughter reckons with childhood abuse, a mother's belated apology, and what it takes to rebuild trust across thirty years of silence.
constellation
Coda: Sehnsucht
Letters between two souls holding each other alive—a devastating, luminous memoir of love, grief, and the threads that survive even death's severing.
constellation
Postlude: Koi no Yokan
The companion piece to "Glass Bottle"—told from the island's shore, a tender story of two broken souls who find each other across an impossible sea.
constellation
Memory and Shadow
A Memory Keeper and a creature of Oblivion fall in love across cosmic law—an epic, breathtaking story of forbidden love, sacrifice, and what endures.
constellation
Stardust in Your Veins
Dying young seer Ahsa races to prepare his gifted sister Aruna to carry on—a luminous, tender story of prophecy, sacrifice, and sibling devotion.
books
Unmasking the Prodigal Daughter
review
constellation
Her Name is Beloved
A mother's ghost watches over the daughter stolen from her—a luminous, heartbreaking story of abandonment, belonging, and learning to be beloved.
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