Mary H.K. Choi

Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.

Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems to agree on one thing: It's a banger.

For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

I find texting to be kind of a safe space.

Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.

Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

Never post boring back-to-back selfies.