Ricoh GR IV

I’m such a homebody, but on Wednesdays, I get out to get lost in words and smell the books. Ricoh GR IV

Yesterday was my 5th Write Around Portland workshop session at Powell’s. A few of us were missing, so it was a small group. After we wrapped our 2-hour session, someone asked how everyone found out about this workshop. “Instagram ad got me.” “What? Me, too!” Turned out, all of us, including the facilitator, got connected…

I recently discovered I can do a multiple exposure shot on my Ricoh GR4. Experimenting with stacking different patterns, directionalities, and textures has been fun. Ricoh GR4 #ricohgr

I keep thinking about the brochure my friend JY brought back from her summer in Santa Barbara when we were in the 8th grade. There was a horse taking carrots from a girl’s hand, red, yellow, and blue water slides on giant lawns, a boy with sun-bleached hair, translucent blue eyes, and a huge smile…

Feb 2026 Ricoh GR IV, Cinema G

I saw this book called ‘Life after Ambition‘ by Amil Niazi at Powell’s the other day. I haven’t read it yet, but the title alone resonated with me. It sounds like the life I have now, a post-ambition life. I left tech in October 2022. I thought I would take a brief break, a sabbatical.…

Summer 2025. I never get tired of seeing the light filtering through the leaves. I learned there’s a word for this in Japanese, 木漏れ日 (ko-mo-re-bi). iPhone 14 Pro.

Yesterday, I went to a writing workshop for the first time. There were 8 people in the group. We had a wide range of writing experiences in the room. I had none while others had published magazine articles. Being given just 2 or 5 minutes to freewrite was scary. Desperately grasping for the right words…

Yesterday. Ricoh GR IV, Cinema Y