Life — Travel, Experiences, and Everyday Moments

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LIFE

Personal notes from daily life, travel, sailing, family, work, and places I keep returning to. Some entries are useful. Some are funny. Some are here because I don’t want to forget them.

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Where Our Food Comes From

Mansi Sari

Where Our Food Comes From

The same salad my grandmother used to make—somehow, it feels different now.

Childhood

The Girl Between Two Seas

In this reflective essay, Casey Huang traces her earliest love of poetry back to childhood visits from her grandmother Hermiña—a woman who lived among endless sugarcane fields across the sea. What ...