Brown hands exchanging a plate full of Filipino street food goodness.

Seeking Me

  • Collected Writing from Filipino Kitchen, 2014-2018

    Collected Writing from Filipino Kitchen, 2014-2018

    Here is a collection of my work published at Filipino Kitchen. Filipino Kitchen is a food media and events group that connects Filipinos across the diaspora with our culinary heritage, culture and history. I lead Filipino Kitchen with my collaborator, Natalia Roxas, from 2014 to 2018. “Looking For Authenticity?” on September 11, 2014. I felt the first post…

  • “Weed & Meds” Show Notes, Permission to Fail Festival, Asian American Arts Chicago, Haibayo, Argyle, Uptown: Sunday, November 15, 2026

    “Weed & Meds” Show Notes, Permission to Fail Festival, Asian American Arts Chicago, Haibayo, Argyle, Uptown: Sunday, November 15, 2026

    Thanks for joining the show! I really appreciate your presence. I hope I failed miserably! I want to die with my boots on! Here are the promised show notes I know you are chomping at the bit to see. I am sure you are wondering WTF I was rambling on about, Oprah Winfrey & Keke…

  • Untitled post 6893

    What life lesson did you learn too late? Leave, before you feel it’s time. Time cannot be bought back. That 11-year off-and-on situationship is a decade you’ll never get back. Lesson bought and paid for. I paid the cost to be the B0$$.

  • Has your idea of what makes a good friend changed as you’ve gotten older? Definitely. I know now what I will and will not tolerate, in myself and others.

Try On New-To-Me Places

  • Collected Writing from Filipino Kitchen, 2014-2018

    Collected Writing from Filipino Kitchen, 2014-2018

    Here is a collection of my work published at Filipino Kitchen. Filipino Kitchen is a food media and events group that connects Filipinos across the diaspora with our culinary heritage, culture and history. I lead Filipino Kitchen with my collaborator, Natalia Roxas, from 2014 to 2018. “Looking For Authenticity?” on September 11, 2014. I felt the first post…

  • “Weed & Meds” Show Notes, Permission to Fail Festival, Asian American Arts Chicago, Haibayo, Argyle, Uptown: Sunday, November 15, 2026

    “Weed & Meds” Show Notes, Permission to Fail Festival, Asian American Arts Chicago, Haibayo, Argyle, Uptown: Sunday, November 15, 2026

    Thanks for joining the show! I really appreciate your presence. I hope I failed miserably! I want to die with my boots on! Here are the promised show notes I know you are chomping at the bit to see. I am sure you are wondering WTF I was rambling on about, Oprah Winfrey & Keke…

  • Untitled post 6893

    What life lesson did you learn too late? Leave, before you feel it’s time. Time cannot be bought back. That 11-year off-and-on situationship is a decade you’ll never get back. Lesson bought and paid for. I paid the cost to be the B0$$.

  • Has your idea of what makes a good friend changed as you’ve gotten older? Definitely. I know now what I will and will not tolerate, in myself and others.

Queer brown woman in the background "holding up" a starfish in the foreground, on the beach in Palawan, Philippines.
Queer brown woman in the background “holding up” a starfish in the foreground, on the beach in Palawan, Philippines.

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