Hello, lovely to meet you! My name is Elizabeth, and welcome to “tea with a stranger.” I hope you can find some comfort and warmth on this page.
A little bit about me and this blog – I am a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco, where I studied literature, business, and Asian studies. I’ve had the pleasure to write in various publications as part of my education but haven’t had a site on the Internet to call “mine” for quite some time. In particular, I was looking for a truly blank canvas to put my thoughts to.
“tea with a stranger” is where I will be sharing stories for the year of 2026 and perhaps longer. The name is inspired by my love for tea with a stranger as one of the most precious and insightful forms of connecting and conversing; my closest friendships have grown from sharing tea together. But I also liked the dual meaning of my writing being “tea” and us being to each other a “stranger.”
This isn’t a blog for anything other than entertainment and substance. I’m not hoping to grow a following, make an income (I have a job), or become a force of any kind to be reckoned with. My wish is for this blog to be like a digital version of the books I loved best in my university’s library – the carefully bound collections of poems that barely get checked out but transform your life in subtle ways. Best enjoyed with a freshly brewed cup of tea, I might add.
The Internet is oversaturated with digital content meant to sell and speed up traditionally slow processes, a phenomenon that has only intensified with the rise of artificial intelligence. I will concede that there is a time and place for commerce and efficiency to be prized above other virtues. But here, things will be deliberately slower and messier and human, in the flaws and flavors that entails. It is my quiet rebellion against living in harmony with algorithms.
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