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2024-04-25 the premortem
2024-04-24 because every day is all there is
2024-04-23 excerpt from "john wayne: a love song"
2024-04-14 the faces gone with the wind
2024-04-13 ésa es la vida que te tocó vivir
2024-04-12 a monkey in silk
2024-04-10 do it franticly (sic) / you will live
2024-04-10 the promises we leave behind (sf recap)
2024-04-08 death of a bachelorette
2024-04-03 the water is spangles off soft blue
2024-03-31 these are the days that must happen to you
2024-03-30 not everything is as it seems
2024-03-28 paid in blood
2024-03-27 sixty minutes to make life fair
2024-03-26 ¿será que estamos mal / y somos indefensos?
2024-03-24 bajo el cielo de kukulcan (cancún, day 3)
2024-03-24 cancún, day 2: playa del niño, palacio municipal
2024-03-21 "Mango" - La Lá (lyrics/letra en/es)
2024-03-16 si vivo cien años, cien años pienso en ti (cancún, day 1)
2024-03-16 cancún, day 0
2024-03-14 slumping my way into vacation
2024-03-12 attention, not time, is my love language
2024-03-08 practically running a dog hotel at this point
2024-03-06 my cup runneth over
2024-03-05 voir dire and jury duty
2024-03-03 branded on my feet
2024-02-29 re: things to think about when blogging
2024-02-28 if you give a mayfly a minute
2024-02-27 dreaming of saturn
2024-02-26 wild old dogs
2024-02-25 three hundred posts (!) + (more) kind reader advice
2024-02-23 damned if i do, damned if i don't
2024-02-22 on being a "no sabo" kid
2024-02-21 happyb rthday
2024-02-19 the unbearable fullness of being [a glutton]
2024-02-16 that funny feeling again
2024-02-14 love in the time of tinder
2024-02-12 life, liberty, and the pursuit of rush tickets
2024-02-09 nobody knows you when you're down and out
2024-02-08 (in which i get) free interview practice
2024-02-07 still believe in good days
2024-02-07 what if i hate who i'm becoming / and my young heart never runs free?
2024-02-04 actor-observer bias + "be a goldfish"
2024-02-03 sitting on dogs, again
2024-02-01 lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate
2024-01-31 feeling flat
2024-01-29 30 day song challenge
2024-01-27 the last paycheck
2024-01-26 blank cards
2024-01-25 it turns out forks are fucking everywhere
2024-01-24 recalibrating my job hunt with helpful reader advice
2024-01-23 coding again, from the writer that doesn't write
2024-01-22 falling down the stairs
2024-01-21 what's important is seldom urgent
2024-01-20 you can't write a good story following a formula
2024-01-19 back to high school
2024-01-18 winter cravings + models overtrained on men/women
2024-01-17 hug your loved ones tighter for me
2024-01-16 on writing forever and being a good Bear citizen
2024-01-15 observations from two weeks of writing everyday
2024-01-14 in which i learn that dogwalking is harder than i anticipated
2024-01-13 re: playing at work, by sam wonders
2024-01-12 ⭐ what i wish someone had told me in high school
2024-01-11 hedging for happiness + a menu of joys
2024-01-10 ⭐️ what happens to a dream deferred?
2024-01-09 a writing tool + re: make them reject you
2024-01-08 never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue
2024-01-07 you will have a better life if you just stay home (or maybe not)
2024-01-06 saying goodbye to the holidays
2024-01-05 hotpot and imposter syndrome
2024-01-04 shooting blind
2024-01-03 don't miss more than a day in a row
2024-01-02 40 questions to ask yourself every year, 2023 ed.
2024-01-01 looking back at my blogging in 2023
2023-12-31 荒唐的是我沒有辦法遺忘
2023-12-30 in search of lost time
2023-12-26 let us strive for the company of immortals
2023-12-25 there are no accidents
2023-12-23 who are you that i should have to lie?
2023-12-22 my 2023 reading year in review
2023-12-21 losartan
2023-12-19 medicine's unwanted child
2023-12-18 hello linux, my old friend
2023-12-16 mint mobile, one month in
2023-12-15 pulp fiction
2023-12-15 to hell and back
2023-12-10 laissez les bons temps rouler
2023-12-08 i am not a mere event on your calendar
2023-12-07 the second life of third spaces
2023-12-05 spotify wrapped 2023
2023-12-02 this is one way to dance
2023-11-29 just hand me down, give me a place to be
2023-11-27 some people like fruitcake, too
2023-11-26 the blog goes monochrome
2023-11-25 my black friday 2023
2023-11-23 the hurting kind
2023-11-20 metamorfosis, mi amor, metamorfosis
2023-11-14 playing football with my head for a change
2023-11-13 sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt
2023-11-12 azelf, please
2023-11-11 writing slump and imposter syndrome
2023-11-10 a poem? for me?
2023-11-10 what's that ringing I hear in my ears?
2023-11-09 audentes fortuna iuvat
2023-11-07 things I will not miss about my last job: a running list
2023-11-06 burnout and black friday
2023-11-05 which roads have you taken to avoid your destiny?
2023-11-04 assorted snippets
2023-11-04 crafting the life i want to live
2023-11-03 wrestling with google photos, again
2023-11-03 some dimitrov poems, i think
2023-11-02 waiting for 2024
2023-11-01 "the summer you learned to swim" by michael simms
2023-10-30 climbing the cantril ladder
2023-10-29 puerto rico in photos, october 2023
2023-10-26 colanders of constellations
2023-10-25 lifting my leaden eyelids
2023-10-23 ⭐ hanging on in quiet desperation
2023-10-14 desolation row
2023-10-13 hater's anthem
2023-10-11 i wasn't born to lose you
2023-10-11 a very kind email i received
2023-10-11 eating the frog
2023-10-10 culling my inbox + my favorite email newsletters
2023-10-09 tell me, how do you spend that precious dollar of yours?
2023-10-07 how to check total wordcount across all files in a folder
2023-10-07 ⭐ looking back on 100k words
2023-10-07 this week has been, without a doubt, one of the weeks of my life
2023-10-07 ⭐ gracias, señora
2023-10-06 the sick get sicker
2023-10-05 sea u later, seattle (2023 sep)
2023-10-03 X. I want from love only the beginning
2023-10-02 my disappointment knows no bounds
2023-10-01 new car day
2023-09-30 sephora nights and early flights
2023-09-28 ⭐ i can't help it if i'm lucky
2023-09-27 hard rain
2023-09-20 on having the ball at my feet again
2023-09-18 communication is lossy by default
2023-09-17 honey and memory
2023-09-15 the fears are paper tigers
2023-09-14 trading in the dregs of my dignity
2023-09-13 "stone love" by louise erdrich
2023-09-12 the horrors persist, but so do i
2023-09-10 ⭐ vinyl records and the diderot effect
2023-09-07 love poems on chocolate bars
2023-09-05 no, i haven't gone to therapy yet (but i want to try)
2023-09-04 labor day 2023 and restful time off
2023-08-30 reading as an escape
2023-08-28 hiding in plain sight
2023-08-27 sports with the elderly
2023-08-20 fighting autopilot
2023-08-19 "stationery" by agha shahid ali
2023-08-18 "mind and heart" by charles bukowski
2023-08-17 "in my next life let me be a tomato"
2023-08-16 "misty" by rosemerry wahtola trommer
2023-08-16 few places in this world are more dangerous than home
2023-08-13 home sweet home
2023-08-08 i used chatGPT for the first time
2023-08-07 moving out blues
2023-07-31 time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
2023-07-29 impromptu karaoke sessions
2023-07-28 ⭐ laundry day and errand hangs
2023-07-27 no more takis
2023-07-25 writing my memoirs
2023-07-24 a sad game of phone tag
2023-07-23 seeing stars and fighting back tears
2023-07-23 un bel dì, vedremo
2023-07-22 i faint in the worst of places
2023-07-18 motel blues
2023-07-15 lord of the (fruit) flies
2023-07-14 ⭐ pay it forward! (the miracle of the lost vinyl)
2023-07-13 i love you, richard parker
2023-07-08 coney island and khao mun gai
2023-07-07 some physical trauma to go with the emotional
2023-07-06 how do i help future Me?
2023-07-03 the best $12 i ever spent
2023-06-30 why i try to write in plaintext
2023-06-29 ⭐ why diversity matters
2023-06-28 "just take it one day at a time" (inertia for breakups)
2023-06-27 dealing with contempt
2023-06-26 pride weekend 2023 in nyc
2023-06-23 let us weep
2023-06-21 moving on is hard + thank you notes
2023-06-20 grocery lists (nyc day 28)
2023-06-19 happy juneteenth (nyc day 27)
2023-06-15 yesterday was not a good day to fly (nyc day 23)
2023-06-14 i get too attached to material things
2023-06-13 ⭐ from boston with love
2023-06-08 Lenin and relationships
2023-06-07 orange skies (nyc day 21)
2023-06-06 every day we stray further from god's light... (nyc day 20)
2023-06-05 take care of yourself so you don't get sick like me (nyc day 18 & 19)
2023-06-03 ask away, my dear readers (nyc day 16 & 17)
2023-06-02 authority blinds + classical conditioning for friendships
2023-06-01 homesick and drowning in work (nyc day 15)
2023-05-31 journaling from bushwick inlet park (nyc day 14)
2023-05-30 how do you view your time?
2023-05-29 memorial day weekend in dc
2023-05-25 and somehow, a bad day to (maybe) top them all (nyc day 13)
2023-05-24 the city will test your resolve
2023-05-23 <rant> shame on CLEAR for dishonest, predatory sales tactics
2023-05-22 ⭐ working from the empire state building (nyc day 12)
2023-05-21 don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm (nyc day 11)
2023-05-20 rainy days in new york (nyc day 10)
2023-05-19 self-disclosing more when responding to "how are you?"
2023-05-19 "i am running into a new year" by lucille clifton
2023-05-19 i found a therapist! (nyc day 9)
2023-05-18 you can be sad and lonely, even in new york city (nyc day 8)
2023-05-17 first time at the laundromat (nyc day 7)
2023-05-16 "together and by ourselves" by alex dimitrov
2023-05-16 the L train gives me (more) trust issues (nyc day 6)
2023-05-15 stillness is in short supply here (nyc day 5)
2023-05-14 sundays are for trader joe's pilgrimages (nyc day 4)
2023-05-14 "august" by alex dimitrov
2023-05-13 "the years" by alex dimitrov
2023-05-13 let's get lost in new york (nyc days 1-3)
2023-05-12 "monday," by alex dimitrov
2023-05-11 "days and nights" by alex dimitrov
2023-05-10 "december" by alex dimitrov
2023-05-06 "in the exodus I love you more" by mahmoud darwish
2023-05-05 ⭐ the glass is already broken
2023-05-04 don't put up with people who are reckless with your heart
2023-05-03 20 signs you're emotionally mature (notes from the school of life video)
2023-05-02 ⭐ the not-so-tough love of immigrant parents
2023-05-01 ⭐ 5 tips for comforting a heartbroken friend
2023-04-30 going through the 5 stages of grief
2023-04-29 ⭐ lessons from 100 (!) posts on bear
2023-04-28 "it's the season i often mistake" by ada limón
2023-04-27 email is (still) king
2023-04-26 everything i’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it
2023-04-25 saving earthworms
2023-04-24 ⭐ resisting instant gratification
2023-04-23 "the crunch" by charles bukowski (an excerpt from)
2023-04-22 the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear
2023-04-21 write hard and clear about what hurts
2023-04-20 you'll never have all the answers you seek
2023-04-19 grief comes in waves
2023-04-18 the taoist parable of the old man and his horse
2023-04-17 ⭐ who do i address blog posts to?
2023-04-13 on becoming desensitized to bigotry
2023-04-12 what does it mean to move on?
2023-04-11 what's the best beginner fountain pen?
2023-04-10 draw your material desires
2023-04-09 ⭐ hemingway on writing
2023-04-08 oh misery's mine
2023-04-08 maybe pain is just a lack of understanding
2023-04-05 "LSD" by alex dimitrov
2023-04-04 "winter solstice" by alex dimitrov
2023-04-03 "small kindnesses" by danusha laméris
2023-04-01 ⭐ you don't know what you've got till it's gone
2023-03-28 "the mower" by philip larkin
2023-03-11 santiago, chile in photos, august 2019
2023-03-10 "won't you celebrate with me" by lucille clifton
2023-02-24 ⭐ show the inside of your head in public
2023-02-23 ⭐ you don't have to fail with abandon
2023-02-22 ⭐ why i use cheap notebooks
2023-02-21 ⭐ showing love sometimes means shutting up
2023-02-06 ⭐ how i deal with "writer's block"
2023-02-05 the enshittification of everything
2023-01-25 covid-19 rebound and revisiting pokémon
2023-01-20 migrating passwords to keepassxc
2023-01-14 in praise of fickle fans
2023-01-09 doing my time with covid-19
2022-12-28 goodhart's law, or the unintended consequences of your goals
2022-12-20 the types of videogames i like
2022-12-19 tom sachs: finding the inspiration of your inspiration
2022-12-08 warm december
2022-12-05 my spotify wrapped 2022
2022-12-04 on making wishlists
2022-12-03 why i only use plain black wallpapers
2022-12-02 elon's 6 sigma rules for productivity
2022-12-01 van neistat's 12 rules of gifting
2022-11-28 thanksgiving postmortem
2022-11-21 what you give up for those sweet black friday savings
2022-11-17 questions to ask before making any purchase
2022-11-15 do you draft cards & letters before you write them?
2022-11-14 ⭐ curiosity is a curse
2022-11-13 nostalgia, ultra
2022-11-12 drive with a world cup commentator!
2022-11-10 temper your schadenfreude
2022-11-09 who turned out the sun?
2022-11-04 how to be a good rideshare driver
2022-10-31 ⭐ pretending to work
2022-10-30 some of my favorite photos from 2021
2022-10-28 ⭐ my love-hate relationship with mechanical watches
2022-10-26 my cloud storage crisis
2022-10-24 ⭐ an ode to that "coffee friend"
2022-10-23 how i use a windows keyboard with a mac
2022-10-20 puerto rico in photos, october 2022
2022-10-11 ⭐ some of my writing inspirations
2022-10-10 getting my 'first' electric toothbrush
2022-10-09 getting old sucks
2022-10-08 reflections on decluttering
2022-09-29 business travel is not as fun as it sounds
2022-09-27 pay attention to your server's name
2022-09-26 my favorite two slogans from '68 france
2022-09-26 how (not) to approach dogs
2022-09-23 a better way to bypass paywalls
2022-09-22 deleting social media doesn't make you a digital minimalist
2022-09-20 takeaways from blog semi-virality
2022-09-16 gricean maxims
2022-09-15 walking barefoot
2022-09-13 ⭐ please don't be spooky
2022-09-12 how i meditate
2022-09-11 on when i write
2022-09-08 on eating out alone
2022-09-03 a beginner's guide to fountain pens
2022-09-02 takeaways from visiting sf in aug 2022
2022-09-01 follow that rabbit hole
2022-08-31 on traveling by amtrak
2022-08-23 pros and cons of using Los Angeles public transit
2022-08-13 on kongguksu (콩국수) and trying new things
2022-08-12 should i rent a car on vacation? + a rant about public transit
2022-08-09 lifetime warranties are (often) scams
2022-08-05 corporate culture discourages honesty
2022-08-04 don't take your Uber driver for granted
2022-07-30 my grilled cheese and tomato soup recipe
2022-07-27 ⭐ be 'big picture' eco-conscious
2022-07-14 some lessons from my experience with the American healthcare system
2022-07-09 how to denote that you've stopped reading a book on Goodreads
2022-07-08 no dejes que tu felicidad dependa en algo fuera de tu control
2022-07-04 thunderstorms, fireworks, and mass shootings
2022-07-04 going mousefree
2022-07-03 la cantidad tiene su propria calidad
2022-07-02 los rastros digitales de los muertos
2022-07-01 el anticonsumismo
2022-06-30 ¿conoces el lugar donde vives?
2022-06-29 el ciclo de vida