August 16, 2020
New York 2019
Just like that, I am here, in the greatest city on earth, in the country of my former colonizers. It is slightly disorienting.
May 10, 2020
New York 2019: Mum and me
When you have three other siblings, quality time with your remaining parent is something of a hard-fought commodity, and the older we got the more it seemed as though the only way I could get through the chatter of everyday living was by going on holidays with her. We'd done our first big Europe trip together; and now, in the fall of 2019, we were in New York.
March 10, 2020
Yangon 2020
I remember sitting on the beach all those months ago, learning about my roommate's faint familial connections to the Konbaung dynasty and Burma's last monarch, and not quite believing it; now here we were in front of the original Royal Lion Throne itself.
December 28, 2019
2019: one for the books
Likely the briefest list since I started the practice, but it's difficult when you move to a new city with a dearth of bookshops.
September 22, 2019
