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April 1, 2021
We Need to Talk About Not Talking About Anti-Asian Hate
The violence and harassment against Asian-Americans is very, very real. It’s happening. A lot. In our own communities. And you know what all the people talking about it on my social media timelines have in common? They’re Asian-American. With a couple exceptions, the non-Asian folk who lit up my social media during every peak in the BLM movement over…
January 7, 2020
I spent the morning watching my own heart.
Written June 2019. I had an echocardiogram this morning. I lay on my side with goop on my chest, watching a black and white image of my own heart pumping. At one point, the ultrasound tech turned the sound on, and I heard the echo-y swish-and-pump inside my chest. For a handful of seconds, I listened with privileged awe as…
January 1, 2020
I am the recipient’s daughter.
Written at 1:00 a.m. several months ago. I am sitting in the dark at Peter’s dining room table next to the shadow of a wine bottle I drained at dinner (it was four nights in the draining, for the record) and next to the wildflowers Peter picked for me after rock climbing today. I want to be asleep, but I’m…
February 13, 2019
In Honor of Galentine’s Day: Wedding Vows for Friends
A number of years ago (I’m too lazy to look up how many), our foremother Leslie Barbara Knope established the holiday of Galentine’s Day. This sacred celebration (which happens to land on my birthday, not that I’m fishing) centers around lady friendships . . . those affirming, infinitely supportive, occasionally complicated relationships that inspire and sustain us every day. In…
January 1, 2019
We Are All Freaking Out (and Other Truths to Help You Conquer Your Goals in 2019)
I published my first book five days ago. Here is a short list of some feelings I have felt over the past month: Elation Fear Confidence Intimidation Exhaustion Uncertainty Delirium Confusion Unexplained Gut-Wrenching Intolerable Impatience Deep Satisfaction Fear Fear Fear Terror Fear This is not a comprehensive list. I suspect, however, it is a familiar one for anyone who has…
December 13, 2018
That Time I Dated Crazy
I accidentally stood Sam up the first time he asked me out, but only because I thought he was joking. For one thing, he was my coworker at the casino, and we were forbidden from dating one another. This rule—like all of Corporation’s rules—was born of company paranoia. A romantic relationship was likely to be a distraction, and distractions meant…
December 13, 2018
I Wrote This Book.
Cross-Section of a Human Heart: A Memoir of Early Adulthood comes out in paperback and Kindle on December 26 (Kindle version available for pre-order now). If you read my old blog, That Time in My Twenties, this book is that, only revised, fleshed out, and with a lot of new material. If you didn’t read my blog, it was pretty much…
November 21, 2018
DFW Airport (Dallas, TX)
I have been to Dallas Fort Worth Airport more times than I remember. It has been a way station since college, the layover between St. Louis and Lubbock, then between Los Angeles and St. Louis, between Los Angeles and Tyler, between Los Angeles and Fargo once, for some reason. The first time I flew through DFW, I was eighteen, and…
September 25, 2018
The Santa Clarita Public Library
I give the Santa Clarita Public Library five stars. For the sake of transparency, I will acknowledge that I give all library systems five stars, sight unseen, because from access to information to access to air conditioning, libraries quietly and relentlessly pick up the slack where many of our other institutions fail us. That said, the Santa Clarita Public Library…
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Abi Wurdeman is an author, screenwriter, and sidewalk poet.
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