Over the summer, I found myself flying to Taipei from China for a short four day trip since one of my closest college friends, Karen, was also visiting to Taiwan around the same time. It was a chance to catch…
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Books about Medicine for the Everyday Reader
Last year, I started to read medical fiction/nonfiction literature novels. My two worlds, literary and medicine, started to collide when I read When Breath Becomes Air and I decided to continue reading more. It’s still new and strange to me…
Life Lately: Transitions
Hey, guys. I’m alive. I feel like I need to say that because I’ve dropped off the face of the internet in the past half year, which usually spells imminent death (of blogs, anyway*). It was an unintentional dropping off…
I Dream of New York-New York Trip No. 106 (or so)
I find New York City comforting. It comes with the territory I suppose, as I’ve spent a lot of my formative years making day trips to the city. For a long time, I never wanted to live in the city…
The Fortunes + American Panda: Stories of Belonging
Recently I read two really great books that explore what belonging as an immigrant in American society. One book deals with belonging as a Chinese-American throughout major points in history and the other deals with belonging as a Taiwanese-American teen. …
Behind Every Woman, There Are Other Women: Happy International Women’s Day
It’s International Women’s Day today and I wanted to give a shout out to the women who inspire me, both online and offline. Let’s support and uplift women. Here are some of the women who inspire me: Friends So many…