“Being American”: A First-Generation Immigrant Story

“Being American”: A First-Generation Immigrant Story

What I have realized, and I guess you could say the biggest epiphany about my life, is this: Value your heritage and embrace your distinctiveness. I have. I am not American. I am not Korean. I am both. I realize now that I don’t have to belong to one clique or one...

Want to Spark an Epiphany? Get Your Gratitude On!

  Keep Calm And Get Your Gratitude On! What are you grateful for in particular today? Write it down. I’m big on writing things down. It makes you really think and physicalize it by writing it. You might have more than one thing. But keep this list tight and important...

An Epiphany from One of the most Beautiful Thank You Notes EVER.

I don’t know about you, but I’m BIG into “thank you” notes. I was raised in the South where they are just something you do. You thank people properly with a note. When I received this particular unexpected thank you note (keep reading, it’s below) in my website’s...
Share Your Story, Give Your Gifts: An Epiphany of Healing & Survival

Share Your Story, Give Your Gifts: An Epiphany of Healing & Survival

  As my project gained momentum, I began asking everyone: “If you could ask anyone in the world what his or her greatest epiphany in life was, who would it be?” Maya Angelou had been a name that had been suggested to me many times via my website but when I interviewed...

Epiphany of Gratitude: San Francisco & The Story of a Grateful Whale

You never know where epiphanies will come from — even from a forwarded mass email you accidentally read in the mess of your inbox… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become...