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The Sunday Currently Vol. 14

Good Sunday from me, she who is nursing a mild hangover from last night. It’s a little weird that I absolutely did not feel anything kicking in, so to speak, last night, and I drank more than usual. But then I felt like I got suckerpunched the next day. I’m not going to lie: I […]

Viva Las Vegas: 2014

A short post on our mid-LA stint in Las Vegas last October. Every time I go there, I always have to ask myself: “What are we doing here?” We don’t gamble or watch a lot of shows (though I kind of wish we went to go see Britney Spears), but we do have some family […]

April Goals & My Inevitable Failure

I realize that it’s like a week into April, but I also realized that writing stuff down has always been what really gets me moving and doing things. I started outlining monthly/weekly goals here a few years ago, but that didn’t really take off because I have a problem with consistency, I think. And remembering […]

The Sunday Currently Vol. 13

It’s still Sunday in some parts of the world, right? Reading I’m still stuck in the middle of Yes Please (I don’t know why this has been such a slow-going process, honestly…) and Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, which is a fantastic children’s/intermediate reader’s/don’t-make-me-pick-a-genre story. It follows the story of Prue, a Portland native, whose on a […]

Los Angeles

Staying in LA felt kind of like staying in Manila—just with a lot less fear of getting mugged, if you can believe that. I was never really a big fan of the so-called City of Angels, but I suppose your relationships with places depend on what you do in them, who you meet, and where […]