Emantable

One of my favorite places to go for hot pot is now closed permanently. This is a large chain from Taiwan, so there are other locations, but this one will always be special to me. — read more

I have not been the best about keeping up with a journal, but I do occasionally write in one. I was accused by a few people a couple of years ago that I disappeared from social media and changing in other ways because I was desperately trying to emulate my partner. So I found it… — read more

I always admire when there a lot of work to do and my boss at my main job says “thank you, I’ll take it from here. Enjoy the rest of your evening!” So in the other job I consult for, I decided to pay it forward and say the same thing to a person that… — read more

St. Junípero Serra has been a very controversial figure recently and I think the fact that I prefaced his name with “St.” would anger some people. I will not argue that he is not a controversial figure or express my admiration or hate for this historical figure. The fact is I’m quite ignorant about his… — read more

I’ve vastly reduced the amount of time I spend on social media and have no regrets as it has freed up a lot of time to pursue more productive activities. However, I have discovered TikTok and have been so addicted watching one hysterical video after the other. — read more

Call if cabin fever, but I’ve been really giving this travel blogging a strong consideration. It would be lovely to eventually take a break from my career and just explore the many places and cultures of this world, but a more realistic approach for me would be to write about interesting things to do on… — read more

Spent some time tinkering with my website to get it more aligned with how I envision it to be eventually. In the future I would like to dedicate more time to travel, food, and performances as I’ve said many times before. So I want a website that shows many entries at once in a beautiful… — read more

Today was not my most productive day…perhaps yesterday’s hectic day caught up with me so there is no legitimate reason as to why until the last minute to write other than I simply procrastinated. The most exciting thing for me today was having Hot Pot for dinner! Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of… — read more