Cooking journal nov & dec '25

risotto, pollo milanesa, chickpeas with pasta, lentil soup

Breogán and the Tower of Hercules

I am writing this from the living room of my cousin's friend's mom's house in a village in the province of Galicia. We're here for a New Year's Eve party my cousin was invited to. And I can't

Reviewing every station on metro line 1: part 1

The title is pretty self explanatory.  This is the map of the Madrid metro system. I was going to review either the red line, the blue line, or the brown line, because those are the ones that run near my apartment.  I chose the blue line. I wanted a north-south

Cooking journal october '25

white bean stew, flautas for the piso

Attention and writing: why writing makes my life better

This is the third in a three part series on attention I am writing in response to "The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by Chris Hayes

Getting settled, pastries, kilograms, long walks

I'm still getting used to everything, but I feel like in the past few weeks I've finally been able to actually experience being here instead of spending all my time dealing with housing and paperwork and stress. This is my room. Isn't it great?

I am so tired

I'm in Madrid!! Got here on the 26th. The fact that I was going here really truly didn’t set in until I was in the taxi on my way into the city. Like truly up until then it didn’t feel real at all. That was the

Things that have made me appreciate los angeles

To me, LA has always been best defined by its paradoxes. You can be in a noisy concrete city and then drive 10 minutes into a silent tree-lined suburb. It’s beautiful and it’s hideous. It’s inspiring and it’s soul-crushing. It’s a thousand cities and realities

Cooking journal august '25

agua de jamaica, chicken stock, basil pesto

Show and tell: my favorite objects

If you’ve spoken to me recently, you might know that I have been making an effort to get rid of most of my belongings. This isn’t exactly a new thing. I’ve moved apartments every year for the past four years now. Expecting a move at the end

Attention and my phone

This is the second in a three part series on attention I am writing in response to "The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by Chris Hayes.

Attention as an act of love

This is the first in a three part series on attention I am writing in response to "The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource" by Chris Hayes.

cooking journal

Cooking journal july '25

summer vegetable pasta, entomatadas, tiramisu

blog

The first post

A lot of this is repeated in the “about” section but hi it’s ori and this is my blog :) I’ve been talking about or thinking about starting a personal blog/portfolio site for like over a year now. It’s time. In 4th grade, I had my own