Let me set this straight: I don't want to. From my time at Elizabeth Public Schools and then to Roselle Borough Public Schools--in my short 6-year-career of teaching--I've seen enough of inner-city school districts to realize that I do not want to be in it. It is rife with so many problems, and I was … Continue reading If I Return to Teaching
Planning the Dream Home: Study
My wife and I are starting to make moves toward buying a home. While, yes, there's a lot of foundational things we need to do like getting pre-approved for a mortgage, researching neighborhoods and the market, one thing that I want to spend some more time on is the more shallow imagining of what our … Continue reading Planning the Dream Home: Study
Dream Home Series – 1: Key Themes
My wife and I are hitting that wonderful moment in our lives where we're setting our goals to the next milestone: A (Dream) House We're starting the process now--getting our finances in check, calculating what range we'd want our home price to be within (so we're not shackled to a mortgage), getting pre-approved for a … Continue reading Dream Home Series – 1: Key Themes
Transitioning
Right before spring break of this year, I had to come to terms with two things: I was horrible at this job Teaching was eating me alive. First off, I sucked at Teaching I mean this as honestly as I can: I was bad at my job. To excel at teaching, you needed to be … Continue reading Transitioning
Social Media and My Life
Social Media Takeover I remember the day I got Myspace. I got caught up in all the hype of it. I didn't like to go too hard and mess around with the HTML coding (I wonder how many people found out that they had a knack for programming from those Myspace days), but I obsessed over … Continue reading Social Media and My Life
Parenting Gut Check
Lessons by Teddy Do you see the resemblance? On August 4th, one of the greatest life events in my life happened: Theodore Tang. It's been almost 10 months since that day, and I haven't had a moment to recollect until this past weekend, when we went to Arizona for my sister-in-law's Medical School graduation (congratulations, … Continue reading Parenting Gut Check
Living With Friends
Back in 2006, when I was only 18, I was surrounded by some newfound friends and we had all fallen in love with each other's company. We braved this new world of a state university and took on all of its challenges and rewards together. We were a mixed cast, with people varying in ambitions, … Continue reading Living With Friends
I Quit Teaching

On March 22nd, 2018, I resigned. I had reached a breaking point in my career. I was still coping over the heart-wrenching firing from my time at Halsey. Why I had not read the writing on the wall after the joke-of-an-administrator even went so far as to write me an uncharacteristically scathing observation … Continue reading I Quit Teaching
Going to Post More Often
Many things have happened in the past few months--most importantly a new job--and so I've found myself with a lot of guilt-free free time (I'll explain that in a future post). I've decided now that I'm going to try to write something every week--posting at least something every Tuesday. Doesn't matter what, but I have … Continue reading Going to Post More Often
Fun Idea Series (#1) Meal Prep with Friends
I love to cook. It's a passion of mine that I share with my wife. Together when we were living in Columbus, Ohio; Lily and I would spend a lot of our time developing this hobby (which, at the time, was more out of necessity because I could not bear to spend another week finding sustenance … Continue reading Fun Idea Series (#1) Meal Prep with Friends