Authors/Poets:

  • Audre Lorde - Zami, Sister Outsider essays
  • Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God, How to be Colored Me (essay)
  • Rilke - Letters to a Poet
  • Ada Limón - The Conditional, The End of Poetry
  • Mary Oliver - Late Spring

Artists:

  • Joaquín Sorolla
  • Edward Hopper
  • Van Gogh, Monet
  • Elizabeth Colomba, Fatima Ronquillo

Movies:

  • Frances Ha
  • Lilo & Stitch
  • Princess Mononoke
  • When Harry Met Sally
aug 4 2022 ∞
aug 27 2025 +
  • deliquescent: tending to melt/dissolve; becoming liquid
  • bloviate: talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.
  • unflappable ("I'm generally unflappable")
  • limn: depict or describe in painting or words. (the artist limned a good portrait of his wife)
  • latibulate: to hide oneself in a corner
  • petrichor: the smell after it rains
apr 3 2021 ∞
jul 10 2023 +

Essays/Readings

sep 8 2025 ∞
oct 13 2025 +

RECIPES

  • mom's salmon (mayo + french onion)
  • beef enoki rolls
  • zucchini + ricotta + basil tart
  • lemon pie
  • luo song tang
  • tiramisu

READINGS Short-Stories:

  • Murakami - Kaho

Essays (artsy):

Essays (work):

jun 7 2025 ∞
aug 27 2025 +
  • Nora Ephron from "Heartburn": “Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
  • Lenny Bruce quotes! "If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
  • "To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him…This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love this way. That no one could ever have loved us so before us. And that no one will ever love in the same way after us" - Goethe
  • "If you know not how to love, do not talk...
apr 28 2020 ∞
aug 27 2025 +
apr 28 2020 ∞
jun 12 2025 +