Defeated Even Before I Started

What does failure mean? How do people fail? Why do people fail? What is success? Why is it that certain people are successful and other people are not? What does success even mean? Who gets to define what success is and what failure is? We can all admit that the...

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Since I was young, every fall I’d experience and suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Over the last ten years, I have worked really hard to heal and recover myself from this form of depression. After years of hard work and support from my former therapist,...

Watching Myself on a Big Screen

“Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” was screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival last month at the Regal L.A. Live movie theater. This new cut of “Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” is over ten minutes long and I divulged more about the connections between my...

Mourn the Death by Celebrating a Living

On the last day of February, Maggie dog passed away at age eleven. When my best friend Matt and I were roommates, Matt fostered Maggie first, then adopted her a couple of days later. Maggie was a rescued puppy. Her previous owner dumped her on a hot street in New...