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Posts by Christine Zilka

I was premed in college. Now I'm a writer (creative fiction and nonfiction). How's DEM apples?!

The “What Ifs” of James Kim

I was riveted to the story of the Kim family’s disappearance in the Oregon wilderness (James, Kati, and their two daughters) over Thanksgiving weekend. Slowly, the questions moved from “Where are they?” to “Where is James?” to “What happened?” to a simple statement, “Awful,” when the story of James Kim’s life came to an [...]

Stanford to Santa Rosa

Where is Mengyao “May” Zhou? That was the question asked earlier today, when authorities searched for a 23 year-old electrical engineering Ph.D. student from Stanford. Her father put up a reward, her friends and acquaintances wondered aloud, and then…
Her car was found in Santa Rosa, a town over fifty miles, a bridge, and [...]

marshmallows and yumberries are fancy

I was at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco yesterday where I was swallowed up in two cavernous exhibition halls of food. Happy to say that Asian foods had a huge presence, whether they were “yumberries” (kind of like rambutan) from China or Indian food (huuuge) or chocolates from Korea. According to [...]

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