Greenish Aloe

Okay, context first, because this whole day started as a real estate errand and ended as a personality crisis over pastries. It was not normal Seoul-summer hot. This was “I have personally wronged the earth and it’s collecting” hot. It was the kind of humidity where you feel like a dumpling steaming in its own … Read more

Let’s deal with the name first, because I need you to sit with it the way I did. The store is called 노노샵 — No No Shop. Its entire branding is “no no.” And somehow I walked out having said yes to more things than I planned for. Feels like it should be a breach … Read more

Funny timing, actually. I just wrote an entire post about a silicone lunchbox I’ve had for close to five years. I never once mentioned the brand, because I was saving it for this. The brand is Living Creator. They make silicone lunchboxes, silicone zip bags, the whole “reusable instead of single-use” toolkit. I’ve picked up … Read more

Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further: this is not a picnic story. Nobody was frolicking anywhere. What actually happened, many times, over many years, is that I did not want to eat lunch with my team that day, and in Korea that’s a genuinely hard thing to pull off, because lunch … Read more

I want to be very clear about my intentions here, because what follows might make me look like I have a problem: I walked to the mart down the street purely because I wanted a soda. That’s it. That was the whole plan. Not sparkling water, not “something healthy,” an actual carbonated soft drink — … Read more

People ask me sometimes why I started zero waste, and I’d love to tell you it started with a documentary. Some quiet, meaningful moment with a polar bear on a shrinking ice floe, a single tear, a life changed forever. That is not what happened. What happened is that I went to Bangkok. My family … Read more

Okay. So. My old tumbler was fine. It was *fine*. I’d had it for years — free gift from some promotion, the kind of tumbler you don’t choose so much as inherit — and the only thing wrong with it was the lid. Just the lid. One (1) part of the entire product. But that … Read more