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On Going Off Antidepressants
Notes on the reality of antidepressant dependency and withdrawal
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The Modern Cowboy’s a Guy Who Smokes Weed: A Treatise on Chronic Daily Use
A personal history of moderate substance use and abuse
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High on Laced Marijuana on Princeton Campus
“Everytime I looked down at my cigarette, it was just as long as it had been the last time I checked. She then moved on to telling me about her internship.”
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A Note on Drugs & Discipline from an Overcautious Schoolgirl
Identity and substance use collide during a boarding school drug bust
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Sexy Pablo
“To Colombians, he was a terrorist. But in the eyes of the rest of the world, he’s a Criminal Mastermind. The question is, why?”
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Speaking Japanese
“These days, learning a language feels particularly significant and necessary. Learning a language: a small multiplication of life in a world of multiplying death.”
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I Want to Become Who I Was: Reflections on Filmmaking
Singapore, Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, and making a movie at nineteen
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I’m Moving Out of the Internet
I’m moving offline. I really mean it this time. After writing this essay on a cloud-connected word processor, you’ll never see me surfing these waves again.
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July
“By the eighth day words had begun to fail me. I thought in silent images. It was hot. We ate greedily, excessively, grilled meat on the bone, whole fish smiling up from the table, savory noodles prepared in cold sesame sauce with fresh cucumber. I sat around for hours after lunch feeling uncomfortably full.”
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October
“You didn’t talk to me today. And I suppose I didn’t say anything either. So I searched for an excuse for you to remember me, wondering what I could possibly ask.”