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…
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…
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…
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…
In my previous post back in February 2020, I mentioned I was off on a year of great adventures in Malaysia. Here’s how plans are going:  2020 was supposed to be the year of big plans & next steps. For some, it was the year we graduate, get married,…
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…
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…
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…
“If I ever needed to describe my artwork in a nutshell or in an elevator pitch, I think I would say something like this.” “Having a hard time convincing some of my students that I have a serious, professional side at the office. Oh! But maybe vice versa, my coworkers…
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…
