Tag: Realized

I drove to my parents’ house last summer for a long weekend, and somewhere on the second day I noticed ...

It hit me somewhere around kilometer three this morning, as the humid morning air wrapped around me like a wet ...

Picture this: You’re sitting in your perfectly reasonable apartment, working at your perfectly reasonable job, and suddenly it hits you ...

People will tell you burnout is the villain here. It isn’t. Burnout is what happens when the fire goes out. ...

For most of my twenties and into my early thirties, I heard the same compliment repeatedly from partners and friends—that ...

Everyone tells you the same thing about a good career: be excellent, be reliable, be the person they can’t do ...

Ever look in the mirror and wonder who’s staring back at you? I spent most of my twenties doing exactly ...

Last month I was sitting on our balcony here in Saigon, watching the motorbikes swarm through the intersection below, and ...

I was at a restaurant in Saigon last week, and the waiter brought me the wrong dish. It happens. He ...

There’s something about walking through your parents’ front door that can shrink you back to the size of a ten-year-old ...