Garlic Salt

We discussed love while rowing on a freshly painted boat on Phewa Lake in Nepal. He rowed. And I pretended I knew how to. In the far di...

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...

Back at BYU, when I decided to pack up and move to China to work at an American startup that provided micro credit to low income Chinese fac...

I was going to tell you a story of a battle with my mom where I had fought hard, ultimately won, and constantly regretted. But instead, I...

When I first got here, I couldn't make a joke without a resultant awkward silence reverberating around the office cubicle walls. At firs...

Have I ever bragged about my sister Jody before? She's eleven. Smart. Beautiful. Sassy. And she is an amazing writer. She wrote this p...

I've deleted that email so many times, only to try again, bleeding out a line here or there. How do you even write to one of your best...

I am Mormon. And I'm also a feminist. My two identities do not contradict each other; instead, I am able to rejoice fully in the divin...

I've been thrown into a moral conundrum regarding a job. Coincidently, I sat through an hour long lecture today, talking about ethics in...

I don't feel lonely very often. I've always been able to reside within my own thoughts and walk around examining my memories or expl...

每当我一下课，第一时间就是到图书馆去，今天也不例外。手刚要伸出去拉开图书馆的大门时，一个瘦小的男生突然插到我的前面，二话没说就把门拉开一点，从门缝里钻进去了。 看着他走进图书馆大厅的那一刹那，我心里百般不满地在想那个男生多么没有绅士风度。 顿时，我楞住了。令我意外的不是那个男生的...

我每次在去中文課的路上都會碰到他。每當我們擦肩而過時，我都會裝一副滿不在乎的樣子跟他打招呼。那一秒鐘的相遇常常令我感慨萬千。一大堆我沒有勇氣問的問題在腦海裡迴轉。 你還好吧？快樂嗎？會偶然想我嗎？ 我猜，愛情小說裡最豪爽的女主人公若碰到以前的未婚父可能也只能像我那樣望而興嘆...

She waits. She watches all the others in the the brilliant azure skies and yearns to join them. But why should she ever want something more ...

In my SAT prep classes I always emphasize to all my students that in the Writing section, transitions are the most important things to look ...