Category: SUMMER THINGS
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Blemished
Note from 2022 Karen: This post was written 10 years ago and languished in my drafts. Until now. Because I’d scheduled it to post 10 years into the future as I was workshopping it, then forgot about it entirely and posted a different one. I’m leaving it up here anyway because fuck, it already went…
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A Day of Me
You know how some people love celebrating their birthdays by doing all the things they like planned by, well, themselves? What a horrible concept.
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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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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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The one not defining thing I love about New York
The thing I love about New York, or should I say one of the things since this thing isn’t necessarily the one defining thing I love about it, is that it’s full of surprises. Last night I had one of those hellish nights in which nothing really went my way. My body, ragged from four…
