Tadaima.
Tadaima.
Tadaima
A place to jot down the random stuff that pops in my head. Tadaima is Japanese for "I'm home!" or "I'm here!". It's also a great album by Akiko Yano.
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Although I don't miss NYC, the one thing I do miss is not having a car. I prefer walking. I like trains and buses. I like reading and napping during my commutes. What I don't like is being stuck in a car, sitting in traffic. Or wondering...
I work from home and so does my husband, so space is tight. I endured it for years: frequent interruptions, my husband loudly cooking pasta at 2pm while I'm on a call, random drop-ins from maintenance workers. I noticed my productivity...
I spent all year whining about stuff I hate, so here's a list of stuff I didn't hate. Not everything was released in 2025, but it's all stuff I happened to stumble across this year that made a lasting impression. The key word here is...
A few weeks ago, I spent some time with my aunt and my mom. We were catching up and sharing stories about my grandmother and the house they grew up in. When we got on the topic of forgotten family pets, a memory I hadn't thought of in...
Last weekend I drove down to see my family. I have one cousin who has a ton of kids, so every time I see him, he's like, "Let's meet up for dinner away from the chaos." As soon as he and his wife sat down, they both immediately ordered...
I wrote about starting Dreaming Spanish earlier this year and wanted to give an update since I've just reached (drum roll) Level 4! I'm currently at around 350 hours of input and watch around 90 minutes of Spanish content per day. So,...
This is a real conversation I had with a close but distant friend recently. I unfortunately can't remember the specifics of some of her more peculiar accusations. Friend: Hey, what are you doing? Me: Oh, nothing. I'm just at the gym. How...
I feel like one day we all woke up and decided to stop eating gravy (I also feel this way about casseroles). Maybe it's generational, but lately I only see people making sheet pan meals, pastas, or stir-fry. If they're feeling...
I feel like every decade there's some unofficial meeting where everyone comes to the table and asks: "So, poptimism. How is this still a thing?" I've stumbled across a lot of great essays about it recently that all echo the same thoughts...
There's been a lot of drama at my house lately, although that's unsurprising. My mom is old and sometimes needs assistance from a nurse. This nurse has been working with us for months and has been great. My mom (bless her heart) is...
I was hanging out with some acquaintances when I brought up that I had a birthday recently. The woman I was talking to asked how old I was. I told her I was 40 and then braced myself for the inevitable “Dayum, I didn't know you were that...
There's this fantasy a lot of people have that if they could clear their schedules of work, chores, and the other everyday things they have to do to stay alive, they'll have more time to focus on their creative pursuits. Write the book...
It's funny, earlier I wrote about how disliking things feels isolating. But the flip side of that is that disliking the same things can bring you closer together. Nothing excites me like someone who has the same opinions as I do. My...
Last year I read an abysmal amount of books, like only a couple. So this year I made a promise that I would read more books and get caught up on my reading. This isn't the first time I've done this. I feel like I've tried and failed...
I was on Reddit a few weeks back when I stumbled across a thread where people asked, "How can you tell when something is written by AI?" Everyone answered: em dashes and italics. When I read that, I sort of clutched my pearls a bit. I...