Archive - Little. Yellow. Different.

The many ways to say my father is broken

Thanks, Artificial Intelligent Chatbot! Taken about 80% verbatim.

Jan 4, 2023 •

August 2022

The mother who cried “carpet cleaner”

Mandarin in italics.

Aug 8, 2022 •

July 2022

Have you seen the packaging on adult diapers? First off, they're called "incontinence underwear." And I guess that makes sense when you think about it…

Jul 24, 2022 •

April 2022

Locusts of control

Mom’s hearing is slowly going. It explains a lot of things: the fact that Chinese soap operas are on volume 11, her saying that “I sound like ants…

Apr 7, 2022 •

January 2021

Did I ever mention that they got re-married?

My parents, I mean. After, like, a decade of divorce. Because they sprung that on me last year while I was in California, half-heartedly trying to…

Jan 12, 2021 •

December 2020

annus horribilis

So Ernie, how was your year?

Dec 31, 2020 •

October 2020

The email after the rescinded email

I’m going to stop writing in second-person, at least for this particular email. I want to thank everyone who has sent nice notes and text messages for…

Oct 30, 2020 •

August 2020

“It’s been a while,” you say to yourself. “A long while. You should probably write something, so they know you’re not dead.” Dead. Dead. I mean, you…

Aug 4, 2020 •

January 2020

When mom called for her daily phone call a couple of weeks ago, I told my mom I finally found a job. "Good, because I was praying for you,” she says…

Jan 20, 2020 •

December 2019

Translation: Losing Face

Dec 19, 2019 •

The future I deserve

You don't post much to this newsletter, because there aren't really that many new things to report. You didn’t apply to any jobs last week. You also…

Dec 2, 2019 •

November 2019

A fictitious, somewhat farcical conversation between me and the JavaScript programming language

Ernie: Hey, JavaScript. JavaScript: Oh. It’s you. E: Yeah. So it’s been a while. JS: Oh. It has. E: I’m sorry I’ve been away so long. You know how it…

Nov 4, 2019 •

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