My birthday came and passed this year, and I found myself thinking a lot about death. We’re witnessing the circle of life,” Paulo said to me a few weeks ago.…
Few experiences for me have evoked such strong emotion upon its conclusion. Being the homebody I am – even though I love traveling to new places – normally by the…
I think I speak for most people when I say: this year has been absolute shit. Smelly, as-hard-as-you-try-to-scrape-it-off-the-bottom-of-your-shoe-it-will-not-budge-because-it’s-stuck-in-the-deepest-crevices-of-your-sole….. SHIT. Never did I expect to wrap up my third decade of…
Truth is, I didn’t know how to answer. I sat in the car with one other – my boyfriend. We stared out of the front windshield into the darkness of…
You don’t wake up at 2am on a Saturday morning after a rough workweek to drive 4.5 hours “for fun”. You don’t pop caffeine pills like it’s candy because if…
You discover a time machine. Before you can use it, however, you must flip a single switch that cannot be undone. This time machine can either only go into the…
Today is a very, very special day. *everyone frantically checking the calendar for a national holiday* Nah, man. Today is special merely because it is my mother, Grace’s, birthday. And yeah,…
“Stories that Stuck” is a series of posts devoted to recounting moments from past adventures that have stood the test of time – contrasting with my normal habit of posting about…
Seven months ago, I wrote a blog post “Why I’m Leaving“, explaining why I was going to quit my cushy job to do….. ……well, I didn’t actually know what. But…
I first learned the word “ineffable” my junior year of high school. I still remember vividly: We were reading The Great Gatsby in class, and this word was used in the following passage to describe Jay…
the wanderlust is real. 