The Hummingbird's Journal

the read that goes with your cafecito ☕

If we were having coffee, I would tell you that

October 26, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I finally opened Ocean Vuong’s new book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It’d been waiting on the bookshelf to be read. The first lines did not disappoint. Vuong writes, Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you–even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are. What do those words […]

If We Were Having Coffee

March 6, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Monday, March 4, 2019 If we were having coffee, I would tell you that today I didn’t go to work because school was cancelled. I went to Starbucks to buy myself a cup of coffee and a sausage, egg, and cheddar sandwich. I rarely go to Starbucks. Before I went out, I brushed off snow […]