If I could sum up my most valuable lesson in 2023 it was reaffirming the growth potential of humility. In this blog, I will describe what this looked like for me.

In this blog, I share my thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the response to this film.

Food is my heritage, a form of dissent, a reason to connect, as well as a reality check-in a word, wisdom. In this blog, I am going to talk about some of the insights food has taught me.

In this blog, I will write about the legacy of Paul and Priscilla in the hopes that their life brings you a renewed commitment to kindness and activism, as it has me.

Throughout my life, people have sometimes defined me based on their context, but my character is a culmination of so much more than the culture they know me in. Instead of imposing their world view onto me, I invite them to understand me on my terms.

Because my mother and I have never asked for reciprocity from our adopted or native countries, I think our detractors forget that we only have one body, our resources are limited, and we are doing the best we can to fulfill cross-national obligations.

Whatever the process of manifesting an abundance mindset looks like to you, I hope the biggest takeaway is that you deserve grace. You are a culmination of many things. You have to choose to see that in yourself.

In my experience, relationships in foreign environments require a lot of adaptation. That being said, it has been worth it. In part because of our individual and collective evolution, but also because I am constantly reminded of what a quality human being my partner is.

While my “what if” is distinct to me, perhaps you are grappling with our own version of “what if.” In this blog post, I am going to talk about how I manage this question and the lessons I’ve learned from it.

For a subject as intimate as deciding to have children, I think women of a certain age can universally agree that they have been the recipients of explicit and implicit messaging about the urgency to have children. 

The title of this blog-Hafu in Transit- is an homage to my Japanese and American heritage as well as my travels.