Category: Overdays
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Non-Linear Thinking on Paper
A senior calligrapher I met thinks that women are not naturally disciplined to do calligraphy. Grit, he believed, was something that came naturally to males. Females were more inclined to not push the pen and quit before they put the strokes together, females were more inclined to take shortcuts. Of course he’s wrong. Some of…
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Recovery in Plague Era
Content Warning: Trauma, mental illness, references to suicide. 2018. My condition has my name in it: dysthymia, chronic mild depression. When you break it down by the syllable – dys – thy – mia – it sounds like This Thy Mia. My Mom passed away in 2010. I was the first child and had worked…
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Small Wins
I get a lot of compliments on how I seem to have “made it” as an independent woman. They’re nice to hear, but I get really embarassed by them knowing the mess of my apartment and state of finances. At this time last year I wasn’t sure how I was going to get through Christmas.…
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Ruminations: 30
I don’t drink as much, I can’t fill up my days with as many shenanigans as I like, but I can be more honest and I’ve become more certain of what is worth my time and energy and what isn’t. While I still have hang-ups of my own, honestly, I loved entering my 30s and…
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Mapping Out a Sky
I am actually forcing myself to write this blog entry. I want to write something that commemorates my first year of teaching in an actual classroom outside of ESL or special enrichment classes. Here’s an admission: I’m scared to write it out