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What happens when you get too close to my bench (Newsletter #1)
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It just takes one simple trick.
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Or at least, very, very fast (Newsletter #2)
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When I was 12, I read a lot of books that kids read around that time. Mostly though, I read a lot of books that kids didn't. I churned through the…
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Two of us crouched on the small balcony, gazing up at stars forming in the night sky of Chiang Mai. Light rain started drizzling down across the horizon…
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"Like, are you sitting at the same table?" The barista asked, uninterested in the reply. She glanced behind her, pretending to survey the queue for the…
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In 2009, I decided I wanted to be a DJ. Fresh off the plane from a backpacking trip to Europe (with a stop over in Ibiza), I'd replaced the electric…
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I'm clumsy." "How clumsy? I mean, people are pretty clumsy in general." "Yes. But I'm the most clumsy a clumsy person could possibly be." "I don't know…
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Several years ago on a balcony in the sun, I asked a German friend about the war. We leaned back on deck chairs and coffee in hand, watching the morning…
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When I flew into Hanoi in Vietnam for the first time, I was on edge. I'd just come from 4 days in Singapore, a giant city-island metropolis that felt…
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