Amy Yuki Vickers
Writer
Blog Archives
#013 Is Facing Our Fear the Only Path to Bravery?
The Intentional Hulk ❀ May 5, 2022
One time I was backpacking in the Canadian wilderness, and I saw a pile of fresh bear dung in the…
#012 How I Cope with Slow (or Nonexistent) Newsletter Growth
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Apr 28, 2022
If trying too hard were a place, then that’s where you’d find me. I try so hard that I often…
#011 The End of the Road (Travel – End)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Apr 14, 2022
I’m concluding my series on travel and relocation this week. I wanted to better understand the human drive to both…
#010 What Does it Mean to Stay Home? (Travel – 4)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Apr 7, 2022
So far in this series on travel and relocation, I’ve written about the advantages of leaving home, such as reinvention, learning about…
#009 When People Think They Know Who You Are (Travel – 3)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Mar 31, 2022
Dear Readers, As soon as I started this series on how travel and relocation add meaning to our lives, I…
#008 The Ups and Downs of Japanese Amae (Travel – 2)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Mar 24, 2022
There’s yelling outside of my Tokyo apartment. I look through my balcony door and two elderly people stand in the…
#007 How to Reinvent Yourself (Travel – 1)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Mar 17, 2022
The year I’d entered the sixth grade, I’d just moved from southern California to central Wisconsin. I had very little…
#006 Seeking New Lands and Seeing With New Eyes (Intro to Travel Series)
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Mar 10, 2022
Over the weekend, my husband, Adam, and I went for a hike, and he asked me if I thought our…
#005 You Don’t Have to Accept What You Can’t Control
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Mar 3, 2022
I can’t control what other people think or do. I can’t force them to recognize the inherent value of everyone,…
#004 Donna Tartt and The Confessions of a Lifelong Fantasist
The Intentional Hulk ❀ Feb 24, 2022
Bennington College in the 1980s was one of those mythic times that produced multiple influential artists at once, like Paris…
