Ice Cream Travel Guide Book ⇗
A worldwide guide to ice cream destinations, a collection of stories, and inspired recipes based on 60 ice cream shops across eight countries.
It all started with something cold.
I write to understand the world.
If you asked me what I enjoyed doing at the age of 8, I would have answered: “observing”. I explore identity and belonging through writing fiction and creative nonfiction. A frequent lover of food, I traveled around the world to learn about ice cream and to write a book about it. I am working on a novel exploring intergenerational trauma from the common practice of Chinese men starting a new life with a second family away from their home, especially after World War II. But in my novel, his first wife finds a way for his husband to pay his debts. I procrastinate on my novel through prose that satirizes San Francisco life and skates the line of experimental fiction.
A fellow writer once described my writing as: "You are somehow able to convey a detachment, or a distance, that allows both the humor and the quick emotional turns to burst out and pierce deeply. You also take on such interesting ideas and situations. I always have the sense, when I read your work, of someone with a powerful curiosity willing to take big intellectual leaps to investigate the world around her."
Listening to My Minor Feelings ⇗
Once upon a time, there was a girl who cried all the time.
How to Grieve ⇗
He tells your parents that a slow death is more kind.
Sisterhood ⇗
So I took a deep breath and said, “I am here. You’re a good mother.”
To the First Time Flier ⇗
You placed your hand near your heart and moved your arms like a jogger. “America,” you said.
Washing and Drying Over and Over Again ⇗
A story of laundry and relationships
How to Become a UXer ⇗
Do you want to become a UXer? This is a guide to how to do it.
Thirteen Reasons to Ride a Bike and One To Stop ⇗
Freedom comes at a cost
Unheard Words ⇗
Once upon a time, I was a quiet little girl with unheard words. Although I have learned to speak up, the shelter-in-place order reminds me of how I found my way.
Why Ice Cream? ⇗
As an author of a book about ice cream around the world, I am asked these questions frequently...
A Withdrawal Letter To The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee ⇗
About that “Social Media Listener” gig — thanks, but no thanks.
Good Morning Mission! Leave Your Mark ⇗
“It was here,” a newscaster read from her phone into a videocamera on 23rd Street. It was here, and it is here.
Laptops, Jobs, Airports ⇗
I never planned to carry the laptop. The 15” Macbook Pro was intended to be left on my desk at work—like a dying patient perched on a translucent stand and with cords snaking to high-end gadgets.
Opera buffa with a dash of amore ⇗
Or the best date ever at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House to see the Barber of Seville in 2006
Blog ⇗
A look at the thoughts behind the curtain