Angelica blinked the rain out of her eyes as she hung in mid air, floating above the dark trees. Raindrops lit up as they fell around her, illuminated by her power. “Come with me.” …

Persephone stepped out of the painting. People in the gallery gasped as her naked body emerged from the flat frame. A woman screamed and covered her Childs eyes. The curator ran into the room, a stuffy old man with sharp eyes that looked down his long jewish nose. “Miss, how…

Sarah sat in her favorite chair on the porch drinking coffee. It was a Saturday, the sun was starting to fill the morning sky and the air felt fresh. Sarah sipped her coffee and tried to think positive thoughts. Her cousin was getting married this afternoon, her entire family would…

People scuttled around the grocery store with their masks on. A middle aged woman looked at me, her mouth gaping in shock. I wasn’t wearing a mask and her unabashed judgement made me feel ashamed. I tried not to look at her. It was Saturday during the Coronavirus pandemic. I…

I’ve been sheltering in place for a month. I leave the house once per week to go to the grocery store, there is always a line at the store with people standing 6 ft apart. I wear a mask, everyone wears masks hiding their mouths. I got worried we wouldn’t…

After 13 years of working, I’ve finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up. I’m a UX Designer at Airbnb, but it took me a long time to figure that out. This blog post is a summary of my experience finding and moving into my dream…

I am an Executive Assistant at Airbnb and I have decided I want to move into a User Experience Designer role in the next 18 months. It is going to be very hard to make this change. Why do I want to make such a difficult transition? Because I finally…

A UX designer friend at Airbnb asked me to help on a project. I was new to the company and I happily agreed, excited that I might learn something about designing things to look pretty. We went into a room full of whiteboards and my friend launched into a very…

The center of the Big Bang was packed, quarks pressed against me on all sides. I was intimately familiar with my neighbors who were intensely irritating, waving their flimsy electrons in my personal space. When the bang finally happened I was taking a nap and got a horrible fright as…