I’ve been into stationery since I was a kid growing up in Chicagoland in the 90s going to Morning Glory and touching all the pens and notebooks. It’s gotten worse now that I have adult money. I’m not allowed to buy notebooks right now because I have too many notebooks that are unused or have one page filled in.

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This is my bike. This is my bike!! I have been riding bicycles regularly as an adult for the past 15 years or so. At one point, I was riding to and from work every single day, rain or shine, as my primary mode of transport, and it was sometimes literally my only source of joy many days. I have put my bike on planes,...

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Ever notice how cute craft beer cans are these days? Me too.

Since my last update to this page in February 2025, I was in a car accident and sustained an acute nondisplaced fracture of the transverse process of my L2 vertebra, which means both that I broke my back and also that I am fine have had multiple health challenges (not including the above) for myself and in my family...

Hi and welcome to my website. I'm Rachel, a queer Korean American woman of average height in New York City. Like you, I am a denizen of the internet. There are lots of things you can say about yourself on an About page but I’ll tell you briefly that in 2016, I quit my job as a doctor (specifically, training to be a...

My dad has a pretty extensive collection of hats. A couple years ago he had an acute health event where he had to be hospitalized for weeks, so I went to visit home and help my mom. It was scary and sad. One afternoon at the house I was alone between hospital visits and looking for something to occupy time and...

I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal...

I use Hugo and DeployHQ to generate and deploy the site, respectively, and Github to host the source code. Locally, I use Sublime Text to write and edit code, as well as Markdown files which constitute the content. (More gear and tech here.) This cool illustration of my visage was done by my friend Leigh Peterson,...