This was just another beach… or not — “Wait”, I stopped walking and turned to my former boss. “Let me take a picture of the beach.” Are you sure you want to?, my prudent, overthinking self asked. I pulled out my disposable Fujifilm film camera from my bag, the only one I had for my trip, which only…

Eating a Weisswurst demands a particular level of confidence — It was a chilly, overcast Saturday morning in Munich. My one and only day in the city, and the last stop of my first ever solo trip. Unlike the previous days, I didn’t plan my agenda. …

Magnify the familiar souls and faces — Somewhere in the idyllic Peloponnese Islands of Greece, a small group of French, Greek, and Americans toast to their gracious host, an old British author whom they owe the lovely summer they all enjoyed together. The Mediterranean spread was hearty, the alfresco spot fresh and intimate. …

Learning to yield makes living a lot lighter — It’s not every day you get to meet up with your ex and give your two cents on his love life, but there I was in a cafe, sitting across my last boyfriend and dissecting his recent breakup. A quick throwback: Seven years ago, I broke up with him. Then…

Maybe all the blips and missteps are just necessary detours — We heard he had extensive professional experience, and that he was jumping ship from from one big name in the fast-moving consumer goods industry to another. That’s all we knew about our incoming boss. True enough, in our team’s first meeting with him, he shared his impressive background, narrating every…

What lies underneath the perfectionist streak — Dear Reader, I wish I could give you perfect. I wish I could use all the right words — the best words — and string them all together in the most extraordinary, unexpected ways. I wish I could seamlessly segue from one paragraph to the next. I wish I could…

Step one: Find your bearings in the “Gray Circle” — The mood was always perfect for breaking down. Lights off. Instrumental music playing softly in the background. We’d be sitting sporadically on the floor, removed from our peers to create our own solitude in the dark. …

We’ve grown perhaps not in pronounced ways, but surely in profound ways — “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic,” said the most powerful wizard of all time. As someone whose day job (content marketing) and earlier day job (writing) both deal primarily with wordsmithing, I am one with Albus Dumbledore. Words are magic simply because they shape…

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