life on mars

musings I’ve exhausted from other outlets

What’s to like about winter

Not growing up closely to seasons, and my brief stint in the cold being when I was in Minnesota immediately after being cozy on the equator (at a school even diehard Minnesotans would agree it sucked)…I’m perhaps biased in my distaste for winter.

December 08, 2025

Lessons from children: Please be a bother

Recently, I was in Brazil and Argentina, and I noticed something: children.

November 26, 2025

moments in passing that stay everlasting

throwaway comments are no match for the sentimental hoarder

August 28, 2025

thinking about clocks

timepieces, not coldplay. get your mind out the gutter!

August 27, 2025

How did people live through unprecedented times?

This isn’t a hypothetical, I am curious—if not desperate—for answers.

August 11, 2025

industry is killing the kids, actually

and I don’t know we can avocado toast or starbucks our way out of this one

July 27, 2025

aaand it’s now gone too far: schadenfreude, the internet, and you

tl;dr: we need more friend groupchats…and maybe Ellen had a point?

July 20, 2025

what’s with Asian cuteness?

a histuwuy:3

June 27, 2025

Should I ask this question or save it for later?

I wonder what Marie Kondo would think, especially now that, as a mother, she no longer follows the Kondo Method...

June 16, 2025

the curiosity rover page

because sometimes we travel and we have updates and thoughts on our findings as we venture

June 14, 2025

hiiiii~

I appreciate that, like radio/podcasts, blogging/newsletters are always around in one form or another. While I know it can typically be for more dystopian reasons (n*tflix and *ber to cable and taxis, respectively), I find the innate desire humans have for stories charming.

June 04, 2025