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Making Homemade Miso: A Tradition I’ve Enjoyed for Seven Years
Today, I made another batch of homemade miso. I’ve been making miso for about seven years now. A friend in my neighborhood first showed me how, and it has become one of my favorite annual traditions. One of the things I love most about homemade miso is its simplicity. You only need three ingredients: Soybeans…
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Watching Coachella While Thinking About the State of the World
It’s already been four months since we entered 2026, and the world seems to be moving in a more and more uneasy direction. From what I personally feel, gas prices have become the “new normal” at around $5 per gallon, and sometimes even creeping into the $6 range. There are constant headlines like “attacks on…
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Ruthless America: How Much Do You Actually Need to Retire?
Recently, I clicked on an article at work titled something like “How much do you need to retire comfortably?”And ever since that one click, my algorithm has completely locked onto the topic.Now my feed is full of retirement articles popping up one after another, like mushrooms after the rain. As I kept reading, I saw…
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Holiday Season: The Busiest Shopping Time of the Year
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, November marks the true beginning of the holiday shopping season.In my neighborhood, the roads leading to the mall are already packed with cars, and parking lots are constantly full. Even discount stores like Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Ross—usually the everyday favorites—are overflowing with shoppers.Despite the gloomy headlines about the AI…