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Monday Dare: The Underachiever’s Guide to Not Setting Your Home on Fire
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link if you’d like to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Learn to cook. My general attitude...
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Monday Dare: This is why we can’t have nice things
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. You can click on the link if you’d like to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn about its origin. This week: Stop losing shit Back in the...
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Monday Dare: To live and die in L.A.
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. You can click on the link if you’d like to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Call a truce with nature...
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Monday Dare: Cake time, fuckers
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link if you’d like to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Act like a lady You know that look...
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Monday Dare: Embracing (t)hug life: Part hood. Part good.
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link if you’d like to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Less hood. More good. It’s a little...
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Monday Dare: What level of Hell is this?
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Overcome writer’s block Every Monday morning, I...
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Monday Dare: Payback’s a bitch
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Speak out I once gave away my last ounce of...
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Monday Dare: Cashin’ out
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link to see the complete list of Monday Dares or to learn more about its origin. This week: Spend, spend, spend Most of us can pinpoint an...
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Monday Dare (& Giveaway!): Happy Shanksgiving
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link to see the complete list of Monday Dares or to learn more about its origin. This week: Trust my first instinct This is actually the...
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Monday Dare: Happy Birthday. I’m sorry I stole money from you. (& Cal’s...
Every week, I challenge myself to a Monday Dare. Click on the link to see the complete list of Monday Dares or learn more about its origin. This week: Celebrate. A LOT. Cal: Mommy, do you think we’re...
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My first rap. And a few additional notes.
After writing one hundred and…alright, look, I’m not exactly sure how many Monday Dares I’ve written. I tried several times to tally up the total by counting out loud while moving my left index finger...
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Hustle Hard Interview Project: Harv & Cal
To celebrate my 32nd birthday, I started the Hustle Hard Interview Project. Each month for the next year, I’ll be interviewing one Hustler who embodies a skill or a quality I admire. I hope to uncover...
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Ain’t nobody fresher than my muthafuckin clique
Hitting people became a “necessary” tool because I couldn’t string together six words to form pithy and biting comebacks. The right response usually manifested 45 minutes too late so I did a lot of...
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Violence IS the answer
Me, back in my thuglet days Flourish in Progress on Instagram Even though violence is a lot easier, I still try to use my words. But that rule only applies to me. Words Before Shoving is the exact...
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SMFH (Notes on Being a Bad Korean American)
I don’t like to boast about my own talents because praise always seems more legit when it comes from an outside source, but not enough people have appreciated this skill, so I’m just going to...
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Happy Birthday, Cal. I’m not good at much, but I will be good to you.
Sometimes it is too hard to write about love- the density of its emotions, the significance of its role, the fear of its absence, the silence after its exit. I have tried many times to tell my...
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Give No Fucks and Waste No Time
flourishinprogress on Instagram This is really, really important and if you never read anything else here again, please let these two thoughts linger in your head for a minute before you move on to...
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Daddy Issues (aka: Girl, Why You So Typical)
One of my most…no, my #1 MOST FAVORITE activity is to devote large blocks of time making up complicated hypothetical dilemmas and then challenging myself to find an efficient solution that still has a...
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Look at the Stars. Look How They Shine for You.
flourishinprogress on Instagram One of my favorite pastimes is hanging out with young children. Not necessarily because I like children, but because I’m pretty much going to be the smartest person in...
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