A.K. LEE

Fuel, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea. The seven essentials of a Chinese household - and salt is the first condiment listed. Sal...

I was tired of my clutter and decided to embark on an intentional decluttering exercise. Rather than just bundling up stuff I didn't like...

(initially published March 14, 2020) If you have a deep and abiding love of horror; if you have a keen eye for design; if you love the cr...

(initially published in May) Congratulations! You have chosen to incorporate a Mother™ in your latest piece of fiction. This is indeed a ...

The year of 2020 has been challenging for practically everyone, and I think I speak for most people when I say "Good riddance!" to it. We...

I am a racist. Those four words are hard to admit to, let alone written to be read by anyone with internet access, but they are necessary...

#bookreview #grimreader #death #dying I have reviewed one essay from this collection, but it occurred to me a few days after I'd posted t...

#reviews #thegrimreader #essays #death #dying #plague This is a collection of writings edited by Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman. It's...

I have been sitting on this personal achievement for a few months, but I can now share that I have accomplished a MAJOR personal goal of ...

Life in Singapore goes on, even as the number of novel coronavirus (COVID19) patients increases. Most people are going about their days a...

“You weren’t to blame. Violence is the fault of the one enacting it. Always.” The second book in the Tensorate series, The Red Threads of...

“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters, o...

I'm not a huge fan of resolutions, but the New Year always feels like a good time to start new things. I don't have huge goals for 2020, ...

While 2019 has been an eventful and a somewhat stressful year, I would like to look back and think about what I am grateful. 1. My loved ...

The truth has got its boots on. And it's going to start kicking. I have made my admiration of Terry Pratchett very obvious, but I have no...

November draws to a close and it’s very nearly the end of the year. Endings are difficult, sometimes. We don’t like knowing that all good...

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions...

If you've been following my blog, you may have noticed in the few interviews that I've conducted that I always ask about my interviewees'...

In a world where some humans are evolving and developing special, even incredible, abilities, the Evolved Ones – EOs – face grave uncerta...