The Little Stories
Guten tag from Germany! 🇩🇪 I’m currently writing to you in the city of Cologne – a city known for liberalism, Kölsch, and the massive gothic Cologne Cathedral. I’m also here to do a fourth Panels & Me project, where I’m partnering with local nonprofits and a Ukrainian school to help around 40 Ukrainian refugee […]
While we’re on the self-care train, let’s take a moment to talk about haircare. Haircare is something that I overlook, until I experienced excessive hair shedding a few months ago – right around the start of the pandemic. I thought, “Oh dear, am I (literally) losing my hair because the situation?” I’m not sure. Whatever […]
I wear skincare like I’m putting on my supersuit. More than makeup or fashion, skincare gives me the greatest confidence to take on the world. My routine has changed from my old one, and it’s for the better: I wear minimal to no makeup, spend less money, and use fewer products – even the ones […]
Important Update: This was a mid-March post. Fulbright suspended the program due to the global COVID-19 crisis at the same time, so the draft ended up in my inbox. Browsing back, the draft preserved my excitement for the start of the year, therefore I thought I’d take you back in time with me. Also, the […]
Hello strangers (or am I the stranger?). It’s been a while – practically a year and half. Well, I’m back to make up for lost times. Let’s get back to posting at least once a week, shall we? This post is about my excuse for being absent and a sneak peak at what I have […]
When you’re about to have an adventure of a lifetime – teaching kids how to create their own comics stories, getting to know your cultural roots, and exploring the coffee scene in the 2nd largest coffee export country in the world, where should you stay for all this? Well, I actually stayed at my Saigonese […]
Why, hello everyone! It sure has been a while. For the past few weeks, a little project known as PAM has been taking over my schedule… and heart. This video provides a beautiful snapshot of the PAM project. We showed it at our showcase event last Saturday night, where the kids from all 4 project […]
Yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon, I said good-bye to my 8th grade kiddos (officially high school big kiddos) on their very last field trip. My students are all, of course, special in their own way, but this particular group of kids were there since I began my work with youth three years ago. They were […]
Did everyone have a nice Memorial Day weekend? I spent this weekend to design a home for the Panels & Me project. After debating whether to create an entire new website or webpage for it, I decided create the latter. You can view it by clicking on the tab labeled, PANELS & ME, on the […]
Hello everyone! For this week’s post, I thought I’d give you sneak peak at the Panels & Me project in Saigon. Secondly, since I’ll be in Vietnam for the project, I thought I’d also share some travel content ideas that I have for the blog so far.  Think: Vietnamese coffee shops, day-trips to surrounding countries, and […]
