Last Friday, while I was sleeping off the flu, there had been a big faculty meeting at work. I came in this morning to find a lot of coffee still left in the carafe, left to mellow over the weekend. At least the pot was off. I am typically pretty lazy myself about emptying coffee [...]
Today, I glanced at my Twitter feed (yes I’m a twat these days) and saw a link to this little news item about three guys being sentenced for a kidnapping last month. I hadn’t heard about the kidnapping, but was a little surprised to see this incident had taken place a block and a half [...]
Ring, ring. “Oh, hi Mom! How are you?” “I’m fine, at work right now. How you doing.” “Good, I – ” “Are you going anywhere spring break?” “No, mom, I know we talked about me visiting you in Houston but I have a lot of work to do over break.” “Don’t go to Mexico! It [...]
My sister and I view Houston as a magical culinary palace encircled by a moat of cars, but my mother sees it as a city fraught with terrible dangers*. Perhaps this is because living in Houston entails SO much driving, and my mother emphatically reinforces the stereotype of Asian women being awful drivers: she’ll slow [...]
