If there's ever a time you can't find me,

don’t worry. I’m doing alright. I'm probably hiding out somewhere counting my blessings, mumbling something about sunshine, wondering how much love I could live in a lifetime.

from Shihan, In Response

Oh Leona, what have you done now?

Okay listen 🥺 -

I’m this little evangelist of ordinary things. If something affects me - particularly in a productive or striking way - my deepest, unshakable desire is to share it with someone else (which is why book recommendations are my love language.)

I’m still fiddling with the structure of this newsletter, but it’ll most likely catalog interesting things I’ve processed/researched with light commentary.

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Other places to find me:

Badly Instagramming at (@lw_chen), anxiously contemplating raising my hand on Clubhouse (@leonawchen), writing & editor-in-chief’ing at TaiwaneseAmerican.org (@taiwaneseam_org) and Bobblehaus (@bobblehaus), within Book of Cord (Tinfish Press 2017), reading at Goodreads, and various other pockets, online and offline.

My new website is leona-chen.com.