Essays

How nail salons became a financial refuge for the Vietnamese diaspora (Globe and Mail, July 2023)

How Vietnamese refugees used the art of the manicure to paint a new life (Worn Fashion Journal, Dec 2014)

Walking the cultural tightrope (cầuVNbridge, Sept 2016)

Tongue tied (Ricepaper, Sept 2014) 

How scientists preserved a 440-pound blue whale heart (Wired, July 2017)

Photos of airplanes flying in front of the moon will make you feel alive (Motherboard, Oct 2016)    

The secrets of America's high-tech haunted houses (Wired, Oct 2014)

A local’s guide to Toronto (Washington Post, June 2019)

Everything you need to do in Oregon, that isn't in Portland (Foodism, Sept 2020)

Hiking Japan’s Kumano Kudo trail (Dreamscapes, Summer 2018)

What chef Susur Lee always packs when he travels (Toronto Star, Dec 2015)

Oahu is for adventurers (Toronto Star, Dec 2015)

Around the world in 80 girls: Chiang Mai (Bust, May 2014)

Six cool things to do in downtown Halifax (Chatelaine, April 2014)     

Shhhh...this bar's a secret (Canadian Business, Feb. 2014)   

What happened when I took a late-night cliffside ride along ‘death road’ in Laos (Globe and Mail, Nov 2013)

Would you go for a massage at this women’s prison? (Chatelaine, April 2013)   

The untold history of the legal profession (Precedent, Dec 2018)

Diva International grew by leading the mainstreaming of menstrual cups (Canadian Business, Sept 2017)

How Tonia Jahshan built Steeped Tea into a huge retail empire (Canadian Business, May 2016)

How Leon’s Furniture is reinventing itself for generation Instagram (Canadian Business, April 2016)

Can Vine, Winamp, Gawker and the Razr make improbable comebacks? (Maclean’s, Dec 2018)

Pay for my beer? How about my brewery? (Canadian Business, April 2015)

How the Keg keeps its sizzle (Canadian Business, Nov 2014)