Sep 26, 2026
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4 min read
A $2 plate of chicken adobo in a Long Beach parking lot. Fifteen years later I still remember every bite.
Sep 25, 2026
'I'm busy' costs nothing and protects everything. 'I don't want to' sounds like betrayal, especially when your parents never once chose themselves.
Sep 24, 2026
Sold the company, moved near the ocean, dropped every bad client. The discomfort stayed and had nowhere to point anymore.
Sep 23, 2026
They're pressure valves. They only glow because you can't touch them.
Sep 21, 2026
3 min read
Nothing in my life needs me to be anywhere, with anyone, for longer than I feel like. I thought that was freedom. I'm less sure now.
Sep 19, 2026
It's realizing you've become incapable of the one thing most adults do without thinking.
Sep 18, 2026
Things never settle down. By the time they do, the damage is already in your bones.
Sep 17, 2026
You only find that out after you've spent years taking it apart piece by piece.
Sep 16, 2026
You stop betting. You start maintaining. You check the dashboards to make sure nothing moved instead of trying to make something move.
Sep 14, 2026
It's the first thing in this apartment that assumes someone might come back.
Sep 12, 2026
Right side of the menu first. always. I'd done it so long I didn't notice until Porto.
Sep 11, 2026
Once you know the exchange rate, every slow human afternoon gets a quiet voice attached to it.
