I remember one of the first times I had to publicly announce my favorite color. It was Christmas. I was about 6. My class was making paper crowns out of tissue paper and everyone had to choose a color. All the girls chose pink. I hesitated. I chose yellow. (Since then, if you ask me, I would tell you that my favorite color is blue.)

Then in middle school, all the girls were swooning over a tall handsome boy in our class. I fell for a guy closer to my height, thin, wearing glasses. I fell for him when one day he started writing out the lyrics of my favorite song on the classroom blackboard during lunchtime. It was a song by Yoo Jae-Ha (유재하).

Today, I work in marketing, teach at a university, and spend most of my days moving between Korean and English. And I’m fascinated by the small things, the signals that shape how we communicate and understand one another. The not-so-immediately-obvious.

And like many people, I used to think of Monday as something to get through. Then I started seeing it differently. Instead of reacting to whatever the week threw at me, I saw Monday as an opportunity to hit pause and decide where I wanted to spend my energy.

I wanted my own Mondays. Not pink like all the other girls, but yellow.

That’s how I Make My Mondays began. A space just for myself, exactly how I like it. I may ask my friends for their opinions, but in the end, I’m doing what I want ;)

So, here it is. This is where I share my own thoughts, experiences, and observations about culture, language, creativity, and the decisions (big or small) that shape my Mondays.

Monday, here we go.