Slice of Life Challenge

    • Farm fresh

      It’s spring break! This morning we ventured about 20 miles from the resort where we’re staying to have breakfast at the Flora Farms restaurant in San Jose del Cabo. It was a beautiful venue surrounded by the verdant gardens popping with the yellows and pinks of sunflowers and jamaica. The…

    • Let’s meet IRL

      “It’s a hellscape.” That’s what I usually answer when people ask me about Twitter. Because it is…except when it’s not. You know how social media works. Somehow Big Brother sees who you’re friends with and next thing you know they’re sending their friends’ and friends of friends’ content across your…

    • Looks like we made it

      Congrats to all my fellow slicers–we made it to day 31! Now if you thought you’d come here and get thanks from me, you’re wrong. I already thanked you on Day 1, remember? In all seriousness, I have been filled with gratitude each and every day of this challenge by…

    • Motivation

      Yesterday I got a handwritten thank you note in my mailbox at home from a principal I work with. It was sent with a postage stamp and everything! While it was just a short message of gratitude, it meant the world to me to know that she put in the…

    • Severance

      Anyone watching the show Severance on Apple TV+? How would I describe it? Fascinating, weird, unsettling, quirky, compelling, thought-provoking… Here’s the description from the show page:Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside…

    • Currently…

      I saved this post from Darin Johnston for a day like today, a day when I have things I to write about, but not now. Currently I am… Reading: The 1619 Project, 55 Essential Writing Strategies, and listening to Tell Me More. The 1619 Project is so good and should…

    • Becoming my mother

      This evening we hosted a casual dinner at home for another couple. I had jokingly promised to make mapo tofu for the wife a few weeks ago. I thought tonight’s meal would be a perfect opportunity to make good on that promise. Buuuuut, I didn’t want to commit making a…

    • TikTok made me do it

      In the early morning hours, too early to get out of bed, during a regular bout of insomnia, I scrolled through social media and this TikTok video came across my feed. This creator regularly posts writing prompts and a challenge to create something from the answers you come up with.…

    • I thought you knew how to speak “Chinese”

      One day, either in the summer or on a weekend, when I was still too young to live on my own, but old enough to drive, my grandma and I went to get breakfast, just the two of us. “You take me to go eat breakfast,” my ama ordered. She…

    • Can I bum a cigarette? (continued)

      I don’t think it’s really fair to call this last bit of my story from yesterday a “part 2”. I was near the end already. Here it is anyway… “Jie jie! Jie jie!” It was my little brother. He was searching for me, his eyes scanning the backyard. They hadn’t…