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All year long I look forward to when they open the pool and last night I went night swimming with a friend. It was super cold (Nipplitus Uber Alles Nipplitus Uber Alles!) but it was worth it. I used to be terrified of water of drowning. My fear was more that I would be too
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But I digress…sorry I got distracted from the true point of my last post. I am obsessed with GO. I play countless games with my nemesis SmartGo on a 9×9 board and have managed to lower my handicap for a while only to be AI Smashed by Smart Go before I can get it down
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There is a game I learned to play when I moved to Georgia called Tunk. You play for money, pennies up to bills, and it resembles Rummy 500 since you lay down your cards rather than keep them in your hand with a whole bunch of side bets. That was the first time I ever
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When Aunt R. arrived for my mom’s funeral she made sure to take me aside for a heart to heart. Behind a cloud of Medicinal Marijuana smoke and her signature Fendi perfume she told me, “When you lose your mother you lose your connection to the universe. You become untethered and the only way to
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Ever since college I have had a thing for the Surrealist. At some point and for some reason I was on a INS <Proprietary Tech Giant Chat Platform> and after an update the comments re-arranged themselves in the group chat. Usually, the group chat is in chronological order, but that day it was based on
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Happy New Year! Did you know that in the south the traditional New Years meal consists of Black-Eyed Peas (for luck) Collard Greens (for Money Money) Pork and cornbread for something I can’t remember. Many years ago, when my mom made the great Re-Migration to her childhood home in Georgia, I was a vegan, so
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I find myself constantly setting goals and not achieving them. Mostly because in younger years I realized that rush one feels when climbing the proverbial mountain and meeting Mohammad is fleeting and does not change the fact that life is nasty brutish and short. Not to mention who you are. This year as I slide
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There is something nerve wracking about replacing the strings on your guitar, at least for me. During the quarantine I decided to silence once and for all my father’s voice when I announced I was taking up the violin in the 4th grade (Joo-Sun Kim and Stephanie Kim both took up the violin and I
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