The final issue of the Hawaii Women’s Journal is now out, with the lovely Maya Soetoro-Ng gracing its cover. My first creative non-fiction piece is featured on page 45. It is definitely a labor of love, going through numerous edits and re-writes. At first, I felt it was a bit unfocused, but then when I [...]
Details are getting finalized at work and it looks like I’ll be moving to LA in April of this year. When I moved back to Hawaii from DC in summer of 2007, I was pissed to be back. I wasn’t ready to settle back in Hawaii, but suddenly here I was, creating a new routine [...]
Although I technically made up with the Hot Mess, things just aren’t the same. How can someone like the Hot Mess keep out the sadness? Girls like her can’t. By their very nature, a Hot Mess is kind of like a hurricane: unpredictable and ultimately destructive. I’m attracted to girls like the Hot Mess for [...]
I rarely sleep after I’ve been with someone. It’s hard enough sleeping somewhere unfamiliar (like the Holiday Inn in LA), but having Autumn next to me in bed throws everything off for me. She didn’t hog the bed, in fact, she barely moved throughout the night. Autumn fell asleep easily on her stomach, her delicate [...]
Dinner was fantastic and I felt bad for wanting to rush. We went to this tiny Italian restaurant near the hotel and I decided to skip eating in fear of getting sick before my date. I nursed a 7-up and my co-workers clinked beer glasses while enjoying heavy Italian food. I had a bit of [...]
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