The smells of New York City are usually the butt of a joke (which is often associated with the smell of a butt).
But in the spring, there is something sweet in the air.
It’s surprising.
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Category: Life
Is perfectionism getting in the way of perfecting your work?
What the crosswalk lady said unsettled me
On our way home from school, a stream of neighborhood children cross at an intersection where a woman with a rich Latin-American accent greets every child by name as she helps them across the street every day. Dulce’s our crosswalk lady.
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I ❤️ pizza
Growing up Asian in a Non-Asian town
Most people think I’m white. But I don’t look white.
When shopping for cucumbers in NYC got strange
Going to the grocery store for organic cucumbers should be boring.
But this time was different.
St. Louis, can we have a heart to heart?
Dear St. Louis,
You say such mean things about yourself. It almost sounds like you hate yourself.
Let’s talk about that, shall we?
Reflections from a Friday night in the East Village
It was a cold, wet night, in the East Village. And I was rushing to my destination.
My first business was a complete failure
Featured pic above by Billy, I think, of my business partner and me at our first photo shoot. We had no idea what we were doing. What is that look on my face?
Grand dreams of selling luxury t-shirts swirled in my mind, as I schlepped through Bedford Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood in which Jay-Z grew up. It was 2008, and the Great Recession had begun.
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Do this to become the person you want to be
We become like the people with whom we surround ourselves.
We are social creatures and can be influenced. We are more easily influenced than we think. I am.
Who do you want to be? Do you have dreams? Aspire to something greater?
You can achieve it.