2026 · 8 posts
August 2026 · 8 posts
The Black Squares
Twenty-seven years of teaching, a screen that will not look back, and the one thing I thought I had learned I asked them to turn on their cameras three times.
- Super Dok
What the Cream Cannot Reach
Creams work on the surface. A face ages underneath it. Skin is the only organ you can watch grow old.
Three Encounters
What I taught my children about studying, starting from the week they entered school I taught my children how to study before they had anything worth studying.
The Fish I Call Tilanggit
Three weeks of rain, a word I made up, and the small tilapia I dry in the sun There has been no sun for three weeks, and so there has been no tilanggit.
- Super Dok
Feeding the Thing That Feeds You
Why the gut microbiome matters, what it wants from your plate, and what quietly starves it If you count all the cells in a person, roughly half turn out to be bacteria, most of them living in the gut.
The Basil in the Freezer
A morning harvest, a freezer full of pesto, and everything else a basil plant will give you I cut the basil this morning, before the sun came up.
Kimchi: The Living Side Dish
Advantages, drawbacks, pairings, and what it actually does to your gut microbiome Very few foods on a dinner table are still alive.
Sixteen Years Later, I'm Writing Again
Sixteen years is a long time to be quiet. When I last wrote here, my children were still children — school uniforms drying on the line, homework spread across the dining table, someone always needing something from me before I could finish a sentence.
