This is a short writing piece that I did one day back in 2019. The idea behind it was to put into writing a world that I wished to live in and experience. I put to words all of the aspects that I could think of at that brief moment…

Holding new perspectives about the blessings of life. It’s only a series of daily miracles and blessings that enables me to write these words to you at all. A few years before the pandemic was even a thing, I walked out of a job I had held for many years…

Marveling at the world anew. The “me” of 5 years ago is gone. In its place is someone I never even believed I could become. …

Let go of the need for complexity and criticism. It seems everywhere you look on Medium these days, there’s some new variation of article with a title like: “Follow these X steps and make Y dollars”, or “The definitive guide to writing for a living” and similar. On the one…

Medium’s simple, elegant design is wonderful. I’ve just missed the memo on these features. There are plenty of things I absolutely love about Medium. Enough to fill an article someday of its own. (There’s an idea!) But there are a few features where I’m either still wondering about their usefulness…

Hi Celine, thanks for reaching out! I can point you in the right direction for sure. This is a good question, because it's more complicated than it should be honestly. I'm not sure which of these ways you will prefer, so I will just list them all just in case. …

It’s easier than ever to keep your articles relevant. Here’s my simple approach. I only recently stumbled upon an article by Paul Ryburn, M.Sc. sharing an approach to creating index pages. I really appreciated the idea and proceeded to implement something similar on my own Medium profile page. …

For those times when everything else feels like too much. — There is a sub-genre of slice-of-life anime known as Iyashikei. Works that fall under this label focus on providing a gentle experience. Watching shows of this nature leaves the viewer with relaxed feelings that can help heal and uplift one’s spirits. There’s a distinctly different feeling to these kinds of…

The lost art of showing awesome previews of a game before pressing start. — Nowadays most title screens in video games are static or simple in nature. They are often meant to be quickly bypassed in favor of players jumping straight into the action. …