Garlic Salt

I was two minutes away from being a gypsy's daughter. Let me explain. One cold Toronto winter, my mom sat huddled on the bus, her m...

If hell had a sound effect, this would be it. The moment I stepped out of the dust blaster, a tight compartment riddled with super blow d...

In between Shanghai and Provo "Happy birthday!!!" we sang into the phone, shrieking out our last off key note for maximum them...

I picked him because his last name was Bragg. He sounded kind of gangster even though he'd been dead for more than 250 years and he was...

I was raised by Filipino women. So for me going to the Philippines was like getting off the steam boat and arriving in an ancestral homelan...

We stood in our adolescent awkwardness, self-consciously tugging at our cling film-esque navy school swimming suits, while waiting for our ...

Back when harlem shake was all the craze, my boss thought it would be funny to make our own as an inside joke and send it to our board.  ...

At the start of every new year growing up, we would prop our short legs up on the engraved chest in the living room and scratch out our New ...

Got my absentee ballot today by email. Didn't realize that there was a Constitution Party and a Justice Party. I also didn't realiz...

Just came back from girls' camp where I played camp leader to 60 girls. Jody was there for her first time. I tried not to hover too much...

Written on July 22nd, 2010. An email I wrote home while on my internship at the US Embassy in Beijing. My dating experience in China this ti...

Freshman year. First semester. PL SC 170 - Intro to International Politics. It was our Communism unit. Somebody asked what it was. Somebod...

While I was wandering around the back alleys of Beijing one summer, I received a phone call from an unknown number. "Is this Sisi?...

It's hard, but it's possible. ----- I lived in the same hall as Bridey in my freshman year. Her room was several doors down from ...

Many Christmases ago, Casey grabbed his hard-earned car washing/ soccer coaching money and went to Kennedy Town. Alone. Even though us older...

  Kanas River, Xinjiang. I just read an article today titled " Why Chinese mothers are superior ," which describes the main diff...

July 17, 2010   After  I told my friend at Global Times , a super right-wing Chinese newspaper, that I would be happy being the MC for on...

It's somewhat official. I just bought my ticket flying from Chiang Mai to Kuala Lumpur. All for the glorious price of $64 USD. That'...

A year ago today I sneaked up to the U of U to surprise my best friend in class on his birthday. I had done my background stalking work and ...