No More Miss Saigon: A Fil-Am Artist’s Work
Filipinos and karaoke have always gone together like spam and rice. There’s a rich,...
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Author: Katherine Kwong
Suit Yourself
I say to you; put on yourself in the morning.The day will ask otherwise, that your skin be a...
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Anchors and Compasses
The precariousness of my career building made finding paid writing work a challenge. It felt like another anchor got broken off from the ship. The whole journey hit my self-esteem and sense of self really hard.
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An Ovation
This outfit is the victory in a long war I’ve been waging with my Mom about church clothes. We’ve negotiated a tenuous compromise where I don’t have to wear a dress anymore, but I have to wear something that we both agree is “nice”.
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Kneeling for My Parents
As we knelt and as the orchestral recording blasted on, I thought of my parents; I thought of how they had spontaneously dropped off a beautiful bouquet of flowers before this game, before they knew what we were planning to do,
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I Am Your Legacy
I’ve made peace with the tenuous understanding that we have. I’m scared of imagining a relationship with my family that’s not fraught with shame and misunderstandings.
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A Liturgy for the Aching Ordinary
When the ordinary is too much to bear and the days have bled one into another, when the to-do list is too long and everywhere we look seems to demand more than we can give,
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Letter: As I Am
“Tribalism” has taken a beating in the lexicological landscape these days, and for good reason. To...
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Day 19 – Even Dust
Wherever I sit, whatever I eat, whatever I do with my hands this day, may I become more aware of my own limitations and the expansiveness of God’s power.
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All Your Perfect Imperfections | Loving with Honesty and BPD
TW: Mental Health, References to Self Harm I went to a therapist one time who told me that I...
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