Writer & photographer with a penchant for chips. I'm endlessly inspired by my child-of-immigrants upbringing, culture, travels, food, and natural elements.
It’s Halloween today and while I don’t really celebrate it, it sure has been scary & concerning to read about the political climate of the US, Brazil’s election results, and the Central American migrants who left their coffee farms behind. If you’re in the US &
Hello! Welcome to issue #60, which is a rather large milestone. I most recently published three pieces on intellectual property (see Thoughts section) and how it relates to coffee. They were very time consuming in both the amount of interviews & research I had to do. I also recently updated
September was an interesting month. My keynote talk at Access went well and I’ve been thinking of how to repurpose some of the content into a digital course. I ate a ton of food in Texas & refilled my coffee family bonding time needs. This is a reminder that
Hello from Austin! I assembled this issue and scheduled it ahead of time because it’s been kind of a ridiculous September. I’m probably attending a lecture at Austin BGA Access as this sends. Speaking of Access, my big news that I alluded to in the last issue is
September is a busy month! I’m headed to Houston next weekend to meet up with coffee friends and potentially learn how to make donuts. Then, it’s onto Austin for BGA Access (keep an ear out for an exciting announcement!). The first piece in my Thoughts section is geared
It’s been a wild two weeks of news (even just the last 36 hours, wow). I saw Crazy Rich Asians on opening day. I wasn’t truly prepared for the emotional shock of being in a majority Asian-American audience and watching a majority Asian cast on the big screen.
If you opened up my last issue, I’d like to clarify something. Neither of the images I used in the Thoughts section were of my work. The captions indicating that they were screenshots did not render, which may have led to some confusion. My writing was solely about how
Two weekends ago, I went on a self-organized group writing retreat. We booked a house on AirBNB and spent Fri-Sun just writing. I made some great headway into some non-coffee personal essays and 4500 words into a fictional short story! Also, I recently listened to the Boss Barista podcast episode
Can you believe it’s midway through July? I’m really excited for an upcoming writing retreat this weekend. It’s a self-organized retreat of area writers (of various topics and disciplines). In the woods and mountains! Possibly the most exciting part is that I plan on working on some
I am back from a long weekend in Seattle, where I visited around six shops (I’m so overcaffeinated) and got to see some familiar faces. In my plant life, I’ve officially killed the sugar snap peas, 3 of 5 basil plants, and the tomatoes are only flowering &
For the last two issues, I talked about outsourcing. I have one more outsourcing piece to publish (how to find your ideal person/people), but I thought I’d take a break this issue for those who don’t care at all about outsourcing. Plus, I just spent an incredible
This is a milestone issue! I’ve not only reached 50 issues on this newsletter and not missed a single send… but I ALSO celebrated six years of freelancing this past Saturday. I guess I’ll be eating ice cream today to celebrate! Thanks to everyone who has been part