A falcon, wings spread, talons closed around a small drone with a bent rotor, against a dusk sky — hand-painted in a Ghibli-influenced watercolor style.

Hectoribis — writing

Hectoribis

Turning and turning in the widening gyre.

I write here about whatever won't leave me alone — family, faith, the machines we're building and what they're quietly costing us, and the stories that won't fit anywhere else.

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Hectoribis

Persistence Athletics

It's not just don't quit. It's to keep going until you become who you were going to be. Five years and four versions of Manny at a CrossFit gym in downtown Seattle.

Coming soon

This is Hectoribis, a brand new site by Emmanuel Chimezie that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe

Chukwunonso

(Writer’s note: We had a memorial service on May 26 for Modestus Chukwunonso Chimezie, may he rest in peace, and this is a mix of what I

Baku-San Come Eat My Dreams

Freddy Nakamura held his feverish infant daughter, Adaora, close, in her yellow blanket. They were at their family home in an inaka west of Tokyo near Kanagawa. It

Be Cool, Hunny Bunny

Hawthorne Grill sits on the corner of 137th and Hawthorne Boulevard. Originally opened in 1956, the diner is the last standing reminder of the Googie architectural style. A

Luck and The Byzantine Sailor

The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you. - Carla Jean to Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men People think they know what they

The Information Theory

There’s so much I want to say to you right now, but I can’t --- “Mr. Eye-hee-nachos? Mr. Eye-hee-nachos” I was cleaning my

Everything That Counts

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. - Albert Einstein I was searching my inbox for writing topics and happened upon