Tag: Little

Asking how someone’s day was when they know the sidewalk rule specific compliments, a smile from a stranger, asking you questions when you’re talking, nicknames, being in the sun, walking in a group and someone waiting for you to catch up, facetiming till 1am, ”checking in on you&r...

Asking how someone’s day was when they know the sidewalk rule specific compliments, a smile from a stranger, asking you questions when you’re talking, nicknames, being in the sun, walking in a group and someone waiting for you to catch up, facetiming till 1am, ”checking in on you&r...

Asking how someone’s day was when they know the sidewalk rule specific compliments, a smile from a stranger, asking you questions when you’re talking, nicknames, being in the sun, walking in a group and someone waiting for you to catch up, facetiming till 1am, ”checking in on you&r...

Asking how someone’s day was when they know the sidewalk rule specific compliments, a smile from a stranger, asking you questions when you’re talking, nicknames, being in the sun, walking in a group and someone waiting for you to catch up, facetiming till 1am, ”checking in on you&r...

Trigger Warning: This essay talks about bullying. Please take care of your mental health while reading. “Laaanjuuuu?” Ms. Takahashi called out the class roster as she protruded her lips out like a duck. She glanced around the room of eager children sitting on colorful mats. My n...

First of all, let me state what hopefully will be obvious— I am in no way intentionally making light of suicide by my use of this word in the title. My heart breaks for anyone whose life has been touched by this tragedy. Please reach out for help if you’re having suicidal ideation. No...

A couple of my writings. (The ones I feel encouraged enough to share) 1 Treasure How much ache should I go through in order to get over the overwhelming burden of empty crypts in this heart of mine? How many times must I look away from the mirror before I finally learn to despise ...

Of all the things we do at Lyft, choreographing pickups between riders & drivers is one of the most complex and consequential. Nailing this choreography depends on Lyft doing a lot of things well but simply keeping riders up to speed is essential. Failing to deliver the right information, at the...

And as part of one of my creative yomps around London, (have notebook, will travel), I visited one of the most interesting at the weekend, the St Pancras Internation Christmas Tree made out of a spiral of handpainted books with cosy seating underneath. While I was there, it was attracting a consi...

Little Edo, also known as Kawagoe, is a special town located in Saitama, not far from Tokyo. This place is a hit because it has a lot of buildings that look like from the Edo period in Japan. It’s like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to an older Japan. One famous street...

If there is anywhere this Jamaican saying ‘wi likkle but wi tallawah’ rings true, it is with Little Jamaica, the cultural gridiron of Jamaica in Toronto, Canada’s largest metropolitan centre. For over six decades, Jamaican and West Indian culture beyond the shores of &lsq...

I decided to write a little to tell about my ghost hunting adventure that I mentioned in my article I’m Going on a Little Adventure! We started our drive in a local cemetery in the daylight. We weren’t there for even 5 minutes and we saw SO many beautiful creatures! The deer were so c...

As I wander through my days now that I’ve been retired for a couple of years, I often ask myself when I ever found time to work 40+ hours every week. Yet, somehow I did. And I did that for decades and decades. But how? When I look back, I realize that I made all those decades of working ...

Did you know that the Little Mermaid teaser earned over 104 million global views when it premiered at the Disney D23 Expo? That is more than any other recent Disney live-action movie. Despite this achievement, the trailer has received over 3 million dislikes on YouTube. ...

The brand’s premium ice cream contains so much butter fat that it isn’t considered ice cream by definition. The factory where it’s made is where a large portion of the egg yolks separated from Egg Beaters end up. And created in that building is the best damn tasting ice cream in...

Success in the mountains requires many things — physical fitness, climbing skill appropriate to the objective (e.g. rock, ice, snow, and maybe all of the above) proficiency in technical systems to maintain an acceptable level of risk, navigation…the list goes on. A healthy dose of luck ...

 I’ve taken some very deep breaths after seeing the asinine outcry from people who cannot handle the idea of a Black little mermaid. Black Twitter has served up trenchant, pithy, and hilarious responses to the nonsense, and I have just two things to add: (1) This is nothing new ...