Calling it a night early and hoping to fall asleep instantly? A girl can dream. It’s 1:30 A.M. The lights are off and you’re comfortable in your bed. The second your head meets the pillow, your thoughts begin racing: The presentation tomorrow could go horribly wrong, I don’t feel prepared…

This particular rotating rock is divided into 24 time zones. Meaning I try calling you, tired of the world on a thursday night, and you don’t pick up, busy in a morning work meeting. I wish I could stretch across the world just to sit next to you at that…

Written After Bella Townsend (@poems.bybella on Instagram) I mean sometimes I think I want to live in my 20s forever. I mean I think finding love can be exhausting. I mean I calculate my hair washing-to-social outing ratio. I mean I want to be thirty things at once. I mean…

They lied. Curiosity never killed the cat. In fact, the widely-circulated phrase couldn’t be further from the original: Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. This forms another misused idiom-proverb, lending to an age-old, growing list of indiscretions of picking sentences out of context, rendering the original meaning…

The stories take you where the fire burns A glint of sunlight reflecting off the glasses as they clink- celebrating an anniversary, saying Cheers, saying, “here’s to 50 more years,” Carriages and carts drawn in streets, horses galloping, the clunking sound of hooves against cobblestones. A little before noon Plays…

Something Bong Joon-ho said in passing while discussing Parasite in an interview with Behind the Curtain struck a chord in me; succinctly highlighting a storytelling lesson I’ve learned and loved and attempted to replicate over the years without consciously meaning to. “The more local and Korean the story is, the…