We all know what this means by now. It’s on all media, my facebook wall is covered, my twitter feed, my instagram, the newspapers and on the news. But this is not news, we all knew it, we’ve just grown a little numb to it. And who wouldn’t? When you’ve felt harassed, assaulted, exploited and/or … Continue reading Me, too
Eat Darling Eat is a wonderful site that displays women from all over the world through a story of family and food. Food is a basic human need, which is the root of all stories, and still we experience this need in different ways through different cultures and experiences. This is my story. I’ve always … Continue reading Eat, Darling, Eat
I am on a wooden narrow boat in the middle of what I am guessing is the Visayan sea. The boat is moving slow and is noisy so I can barely hear the bamboo hitting the waves on the side. We slow down as two fishermen in two smaller boats (or what I would almost … Continue reading Sushi
Broken world, broken you Continents and hearts broken into a million places, a million pieces all within the hold of our stories still untold One world, one heart both broken apart lost places, forgotten faces the world goes on and you still belong Beautiful world, beautiful you what can never be lost or untrue remote places, hidden … Continue reading Beautiful world, Beautiful you
There are bridges all over the world where people hang their relationships in love locks. You know the tradition. The one where the lovers buy a padlock, put their initials on it, go to the bridge, pledge eternal love, locks the padlock to the bridge and throws the key in the river, sealed with a … Continue reading Love lock
There exists a portrait of me in the Himalayas in India. I have never been to India, but it's been a dream of mine for a long time, since my maternal grandmother was from India. There's something to be said for having a fraction of a dream come true, simply by knowing that in some … Continue reading Touch
I have my fathers hands But I have my mothers touch I wish I didn’t comprise of a divide so much This one means a lot to me. There’s a certain feeling of being torn between two people, between two personalities, between two cultures, between two thoughts and all within your one self. The multicultural … Continue reading The Hapa
Five years ago I started getting headaches that knocked me out for days. In the beginning, the headaches where the anomaly so I kept living just as I had always lived. I made plans with friends, only to cancel last minute because of a headache. It became embarrasing and I hated who I was becoming … Continue reading Lose your head, lose your mind
Days fly by and we hardly even notice at times, until there comes a day when things change, and that day becomes a marker in our history. It was as simple as a call, and just by hearing the phone ring, I knew that the day was going to change. This was going to be … Continue reading If I could write you a letter…
No writer is the same, and through the years we've heard of several expected and several unexpected ways of writing. Haruki Murakami believes in repetition, doing the same thing every day. He's said that he wakes up early every day, writes for five to six hours, exercises, enjoys a book or some music and goes … Continue reading How do you write?
