I Was Featured in HuffPost!

Sharing my personal essay on setbacks

Hello, readers! For those of you who found me through HuffPost — it’s nice to meet you, and for those of you who read regularly — well, I guess the cat’s out of the bag!

Earlier this month, I was honored to have my personal essay about growing up mixed-race shared in HuffPost. (You can read it here if you’re interested).

It’s somewhat of a surreal thing to actually see my thoughts out there, in a neatly formatted website, published by an official institution. It’s a great feeling, and I’ve wanted to share my story for a long time. As I approach 30 and become truly conscious of my mortality for the first time (maybe this is part of classic “pre-thirty syndrome,” as someone told me about recently?), I realize I don’t want to live life with thousands of ideas inside me, unexpressed.

So I decided to just go for it and put it out there. My hope, really for anything I write, is that it will resonate with at least one person, and hopefully make them feel more seen. It was certainly interesting dealing with my first real share of rude online comments — but also amazing direct messages from people who had stumbled upon my story and felt less alone because of it. It is the best feeling in the world I could possibly ask for, and definitely worth any other type of…curious comment, let’s say.

All that said, I’m grateful to have finally shared my experience. If you read it, I hope you enjoy it! (including the link again for anyone that missed it)

Finally, on an update note: I am working through editing and reflecting on a few amazing conversations I’ve had recently. There’s been a lot going on — in a good way, which you’ll see more of in coming posts :)

See you in your inbox soon,

Anna