The Butter Life

It’s not better.   It’s butter.   And it’s BEST.

  • The ONLY Reason Why People Eat Durian

    Durian, the popular fruit of Southeast Asia, is completely polarizing. You either love it, or you hate it. My Asian friends and family use it as a litmus test to see how Asian I am.  Can I cut it properly? Can I eat it? Nope.......

  • Selfies

    We all grow up under the influence of others. A perpetual DUI ticket that we can never fully erase from our permanent record. Self Respect. Self Worth. Self Love. My parents never mentioned such words. Instead, the phrases on repeat were: “Put your whole heart......

  • What Would The Neighbors Think

    In the span of a 20-second conversation, a lot of information can be shared, either intentionally or not. Complete strangers suddenly reveal that their relative lost a limb, or they will casually drop that they own property in Europe. Even at the mailbox, a neighbor......

  • Self-Acceptance. Easy as Pie?

    As the kid of immigrants, I grew up in my parents’ Chinese restaurant, watching all the Southerners “explore” the novelty of Chinese food. Outside of those walls, people looked at my Chinese face and assumed I couldn’t understand English, that somehow I was inferior to......

  • The New (Old) Beauty Standard

    What if our definition of beauty and ways of defining beauty were completely a result of our inner selves? Beauty standards are described as unattainable, partly because we keep changing the external factors. Just look back on past decades to see how trends influence everything......