We, as adults, are a pretentious group.

Take wine for example. I’m a big fan, but I’m also aware that it is simply grape juice. The same grape juice we drank as children. We loved it as kids because it’s sweet and sweet = happiness. As adults, we strip away that sweetness, rot the juice, and are happy to pay $10 - $500,000 per bottle. Either way, we drink it to get lit; the only difference between then and now, is that now, we use pretension to convince ourselves that we enjoy the taste of rotten fruit juice to justify consuming alcohol (which we only do because it brings us to a ment...

It’s not a secret that there’s a prevalent fetishization of Asian women that exists in both Western and Eastern cultures. A fantasy that an Asian woman should be a certain way; that there’s a mold she’s created from and thus conforms to.

But people can't see my values and experiences by looking at my face. They can't see that I'm American because I look Chinese.

Writing is hard. Being a father is much much harder - and I’m not even talking about being a good father (whatever that means). But somehow, after I decided to write a book for my daughters, both writing and being a father became easier.