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Teaching Folks How to Cypher at the Rink

Posted on August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 by

Tuesday night was a high point in my skating career: leading a skill share for my community on cyphering! I had a vision for what I wanted to have happen tonight — creating a safe space for skaters to express themselves through the cypher — and it went even better than I envisioned. Seeing so…

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Interview with My Dad about Growing Up and Coming to America

Posted on July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 by

Here’s an unfortunately truncated version of an interview I did with my father back in 2020 about his upbringing and how he came to America in the late 1960s. I’m grateful to have this small remembrance of him and his unique way of telling stories, which he loved to do.

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Making Homemade Kouign Amann!

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 by

Making my own kouign amann has been on my baking bucket list for years now. Last week I finally had the time and energy to make it happen. And it only took 17 hours to make six of them! Kouign amann are considered some of the most difficult of the French “viennoiserie” pastries — harder…

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An Amazing and Exhausting Week of Birthday Festivities!

Posted on July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 by

When I turned 50, I thought I couldn’t outdo myself in birthday celebration organizing. After all, that year, I threw an epic dance party for 50 of my favorite people in the world, complete with a buffet meal, a custom cake from Goldilock’s bakery, a DJ, entertainment, and a trivia contest. It was a huge…

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I Hiked the SF Crosstown Trail!

Posted on July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 by

One of my San Francisco bucket list activities was to hike the SF Crosstown Trail. This urban hike meanders through a dozen incredible neighborhoods, hitting up hidden parks, gardens, stairways, lookout points, two lakes, and more. Doing the hike was particularly important to me when I was diagnosed in February with tendinitis and minor arthritis…

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My Self-Care Circle

Posted on July 4, 2024December 7, 2024 by

I did this back in 2021, but it still does a pretty job of expressing different ways that I show care and love to myself. How I express self-care: UPDATE 12/7/2024: I recently found out this idea of a “self-care rainbow” comes from illustrator / artist Decade2Doodle / Steph Ferrell Crigler. Original source.

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It’s my Four Year Skate-a-versary!

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024 by

It was June 2020, a few months into the pandemic, and I was losing my damn mind. In the Before Times, dancing was a central part of my life. I was going out lindy hopping and house dancing several nights a week, traveling to dance events, and obsessing over whatever was new in the dance…

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Playing around with Motion Tracking on a Skate Vid

Posted on June 22, 2024 by

What do you think? Not perfect, but kinda works.

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An Epic Day at the Alameda County Fair!

Posted on June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 by

We had an unexpected day off at work because of Juneteenth, which I decided to spend going back to the Alameda County Fair, which I haven’t been to for at least two decades. I have fond memories of going to the fair as a young person. But would it live up to the nostalgia after…

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Bella is Gone But…. Meet My New Motor Scooter!

Posted on June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 by

A week and a half ago, my luck with Bella the motor scooter finally ran out. Bella was stolen from a motorcycle parking lot in SOMA in a brief 20 minute window while I was getting dinner at the new IKEA food hall. It really really sucks to lose her. I had a lot of…

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