Why I try not to change to new tech--often--Everything, from plastic food containers to

diabetic monitors to laptops and social media, require learning new language and new systems, and sometimes I just don't have the mental energy for it.

But sometimes we do have to change systems, right?

It's like my cousin Mongoose coming in to talk to my husband and me, late one night in mid-1970s.

It got very late and I got very sleepy, so I was about to goto sleep, when my husband "D" said, "Maybe I should change too."

M. said, "Don't. Everything is difft. even the smell."

Eventually, M and I and 2 other cousins from a difft father and mother came to USA between 1960s and 1980s.

We met up again on Hi Line Park in NY City in 2012, while I was there for a conference at Columbia Univ.

I found M's hands looked exactly like mine and my son's--while taking a pic of a toad lily, and moreover--we did similar things, "Liz" M. and me--like

we went into a Chinese kitchen utensil store on Mott Street, picked up assorted items like ladles for deep frying, woks etc.

"tried them out for size," put them back down, did not buy anything, and then came out again.

M and "Superwoman" his wife had good impulse control. All they bought were some white peaches.

I love New York New York, though have never lived there.

In the days when M worked at UN and I still didn't have a credit card, I went on Amtrak and went to see van Gogh at Arles at the Met.

M bought me tickets and I repaid him and we had lunch tog.

It's been a great life. I got new glasses just before that trip,the better to see van Gogh's brush strokes.

P, Liz's sister, died in 2004.

I'm not unhappy.

I've seen many original art works, in Warsaw,Poland, in Copenhagen, in Thailand, in DC, in Philadelphia, at Art Institute of Chicago.

I've met many great men and women and read many great books and seen many movies and several plays.

I consider myself "richer" than this warped woman who married a millionaire.

I found I don't like her, so I just dropped her off my email list.

Life is too short to have someone always trying to sabotage you in the small things.

I'd rather read a book alone or work on my own novels.

I am heartbroken by the ICE raid on NY Chinatown.

Why? Why? Why?

Kyi May Kaung

10-28-2025.