welcome to every tiny thought.

After nearly four years of hiatus in blogging, I finally decided to start writing again. A year after my last blog in the fall of 2016, I left Houston, moved to Ann Arbor for graduate school, and spent two pretty busy years writing papers, attending classes, and being a part-time teaching assistant. Last summer, I moved to the southwest corner of the U.S. and started a new job.

It's easy to write about the last four years in a small paragraph, but it has probably been some of the busiest years of my 20s. With all the academic papers that I had to read and write, I barely had time to read or write for pleasure when all I wanted to do was catching up on sleep.

Strangely, in the strangest year of 2020, now it feels like a good time. After I settled into my new job and a new city, I found myself eager to start writing again, to process my thoughts, and to honor where I am in a particular space and time. Blogging is like framing those thoughts and putting them on a wall in a tiny corner of the internet for the time to come. And so, after a tumultuous year, I logged back into my old WordPress account after going through a few new names in my head and decided on every tiny thought.

I want this blog to be a place where I could capture every tiny thought that I don't want to forget. I want it to be a place of my own, that I could create, shape, and share with others (if there are people who find it interesting). It's also about reclaiming a space that is within my control. After all, there are so many things in 2020 that have been out of control.

At the tail of a strange, messy, quiet yet loud year, here I am, blessed and privileged to be in a peaceful, warm, and sunny place to start writing again.

Welcome (back) to every tiny thought.