Author: karenmaywrites
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I’m back
I got yelled at. I’d been back in New York for good, or at least as long as “for good” can be guaranteed by someone who moves a lot, for barely 20 minutes. And I got yelled at.
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We Went To Oregon
‘Tis the cities! I said, pointing my index finger to the heavens. Cities are culture, art, people, learning, innovation and architecture. NAY! said Lukas, punching the air. ‘Tis nature! Lakes! Mountains! Purple majesties! For years I thought he was wrong. And then I went to Oregon.
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I am on the road
And will be back soon with many, many posts. For now, there’s this. Happy Friday, friends.
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I’m a Lyrical Gangsta
I love karaoke. But that’s not much of a surprise. A Filipino saying she loves karaoke is like a white dude saying he loves, uh, never mind. Let’s just say it’s pretty common.
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Love and Life and Writing
People are like creative work. You have to go through a lot of mediocre ones, bad ones even, to end up with something good. Even then, it doesn’t mean it will always be good. Nothing is linear.
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Chinese Takeout
My favorite type of travel is the long, lingering kind. The kind that sees the best of somewhere as well as the not so best. The kind that lets me sit, study and hang. It’s how I ended up in Staunton, Bristol and Fredericksburg. Their one main attraction, aside from a guaranteed paycheck, was that they…
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To the ends of land
I don’t have a hometown. Or at least I don’t have just one. Saying Richmond feels untrue. By the time I moved there, I was a fully formed human being. Saying New York feels incomplete, because I spent a good chunk of my formative years in the Philippines. Saying the Philippines only touches on the…
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Grad school…
Takes a lot out of you. Which is why you need lots of coffee. On most days, I make (meaning I press a button) coffee to-go. But on this day I’m on spring break, so I get to drink out of a mug. As well as eat cereal out of a bowl while, get this,…
