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