For the girl who is desperately trying to find herself again
There’s something sinister that happens to girls from the ages of 10 to 18. These 8 years are some of the most critical and fragile years for most girls. At least they were for me. The curse of puberty begins to rear its ugly head and all of a sudden the childlike wonder and innocence…
The hidden cost of living abroad…reflections of a first-gen immigrant kid.
When my grandmother died in 2022, I heard the news through a phone call from my sister. I had just come back to my college dorm from my thermodynamics class when I received the bad news. I quickly hung up the phone in shock and crawled into my bed, where I proceeded to burst into…
You have to be selfish in your early 20s!
My grandmother was superhuman. I remember watching with wide panicked eyes as she gripped a scalding hot metal cooking pot with her bare hands. In a panic, I asked her if she was in pain from receiving third degree burns on her palms only for her to chuckle to herself as though I had asked…
