life on mars

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.

tri pol.bsky|December 08, 2025

Lessons from children: Please be a bother

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

tri pol.bsky|November 26, 2025

moments in passing that stay everlasting

throwaway comments are no match for the sentimental hoarder

tri pol.bsky|August 28, 2025

thinking about clocks

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

tri pol.bsky|August 27, 2025

How did people live through unprecedented times?

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

tri pol.bsky|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

tri pol.bsky|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?

tri pol.bsky|July 20, 2025

what’s with Asian cuteness?

a histuwuy:3

tri pol.bsky|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...

tri pol.bsky|June 16, 2025

the curiosity rover page

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

tri pol.bsky|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.

tri pol.bsky|June 04, 2025