Why doesn’t anyone ever write about the break-up of a friendship, even though it feels so much more screwed up than a break-up of a romantic relationship?! This is full of horrible achy feels, so you can skip out on this if you’ve never been in this position – I just need to get it out of my system, because I just blocked someone out of everywhere and I don’t ever do that. I am …
Author: Annie
→That’s So Annie are the chronicles of a queer, immigrant brown woman who is many things – photographer, marketer, social media junkie, engineer, incurable geek, rescue cat mom, activist – but most importantly, she is a storyteller trying to change the world, one day at a time.
“What’s so special about Princeton anyway?” you asked on the first sunny day this past summer, in your 9274th attempt to get me to move to New York City. My answers over the last eleven months at that point had varied from a mock-scandalized “..uh? Michelle Obama???” to the dramatically whined “nothing. absolutely nothing.” You manage to ask me every single time you see me. I give you a new answer every time you ask. …
*gasp* …. this has got to be the first time I have written a travelogue within the same month as the trip! What?! I took half a year to write about roadtripping in Iceland, and then again about hiking to Machu Picchu, so let’s just say that this is an indication of just how amazing Banff National Park was! 😀 Unlike my other travelogues, I will not be listing what I did every single day. …
After three years of planning to be in Washington, DC, at the right time and the right place to witness the peak bloom of cherry blossoms, we finally got there. Despite all the crowds (it felt like everyone and their grandmother was there, going to town with selfies with the blossoms!) and the chilly weather that made moving around really cumbersome, it. was. spectacular. Love and light, Annie. …
2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …