This is the moment I’ve been waiting for. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for since that terrible night in November 2016 when we were all blindsided by a Red sweep of the presidency, Senate, and House. That night my stomach dropped and it’s…
The best way I can explain it is like this: you’re walking alone in complete darkness when all of a sudden you fall into a deep pit. So you’re just lying there deeper in darkness with the wind utterly knocked out of you, unable to…
One night a little over a year ago I found myself rifling through drawers in my old apartment trying to find a fork to help shovel a particularly sad batch of scrambled eggs into my mouth. You know, just your average Tuesday. There were multiple…
It’s Friday night around 10pm. You’ve had a long week and would prefer to commemorate it by drinking your memories into oblivion with some similarly self-destructive people. However, the few feelers you’ve put out to friends and co-workers alike have thus far come up empty….
…continued from Date Expectations “Sup sup sup!” Colin freezes there with his double-peace-sign-flashing arms crossed; and I freeze as well. Time slows as I frantically calculate my options: different possibilities and equations flashing in front of me like a cross between A Beautiful Mind and…
I’m hustling down a long gritty stretch of Western Blvd. in Koreatown after dusk on a weeknight. I pass by the most intriguing landmarks of my neighborhood, all the colorful Korean signs, tiny Mexican churches with lively services perennially running, and shoddy businesses that look…
Looks like the cliche-spouting adults of my childhood were wrong. I may be feeling older these days, but am certainly none the wiser. However, in the past few years I’ve started to recognize certain patterns in my life that I hadn’t picked up on before….