from the Adventures section of dsriseah.com This is my "stories" feed, which relates my day-to-day activities in a different personal voice. It's an exploration of using narrative design and magical realism as a way to motivate myself (and maybe others) through filtering my mundane existence in more exciting ways. 2026-09-17T19:10:36Z https://dsriseah.com/stories/ Sri 2026-09-17T19:10:36Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.09.17/

⊕ show caption About the Photo // I improvised this chicken pot pie from scratch, making a roux and adding chicken broth, and pouring it over pre-cooked vegetables to make a hearty filling. [...]

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Mrah! I said I wasn’t going to write anything but I’m at the library with a friend and we’re practicing writing stories! So I’m going to write about the story of a cat named Sri, her human friend Ellie, and [...]

2026-08-21T21:59:21Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.21/

Mrah!!! I have been so busy but haven’t realized it! It has been one of those weeks where the “simple outcome” I want turns out to have their OWN wants, and those wants have their OWN [...]

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Mrah! I totally forgot to write my story update yesterday, but that was because I was busy with a surprise job opportunity that I found very appealing but also quite different from what I’ve done [...]

2026-08-18T09:30:35Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.18/

Mrah! Another day of dealing with the double whammy of NOT ENOUGH SLEEP and RUNNING MULTIPLE ERRANDS . Such days always seem to exact a heavy toll on my ability to be focused and alert. It’s around 10PM now, [...]

2026-08-17T21:16:25Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.17/

Mrah! It’s late! I’m sleepy! I demand attention and tribute! But there’s no one to provide me with these things, so I suppose I will have to pay tribute to myself. Harrumph! “You got a good chunk of stuff done [...]

2026-08-16T12:54:38Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.16/

The late afternoon sun had started to sink behind the pines when Sri the Cat noticed. She had been sitting in her patio food garden reading a chapter of The Kamogawa Food Detectives . She [...]

2026-08-15T12:41:58Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.15/

Mrah! Saturday! A chance to recover from yesterday’s unproductive day! Looking back at it, the main achievement was making the rungs of a Software Ladder that are one of the paths toward being competitive in [...]

2026-08-14T20:18:22Z posted on https://dsriseah.com/stories/001/26.08.14/

Sri yawned mightily, shaking the brain fog from her head. She had made the mistake of eating two huge slices of locally-baked white bread slathered with imported French butter. It had tasted amazing [...]

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“It’s a fine day to start a new life!” exclaimed Sri as she opened the window of her makeshift cottage. The woods outside were bright and teeming with birds noisily going about their business, [...]

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A Cozy Place for Narrating The Cat’s Journey When I was starting to implement The Ship storyline, it became clear that I needed to start small from very humble beginnings. The things that I am doing every day are [...]