At the beginning of 2015, I didn’t have any vacations booked beyond a week in Paris with my mom. I had just started a new job a few months prior, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to travel much this year. I confided my concern to my friend...
"To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
When I reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn last year—one of my favorite books, and one that I could read...
South Africa has been at the very top of my travel wish list for a very long time--but it's one of those places that seems incredibly foreign (and to some extent, out of reach) simply because of its geographical distance.
When my mom was 16,...
"On social media, we all want to be seen as ducks, a term researchers at Stanford University came up with to convey how, like the animal, young women want to be seen as gliding serenely along, but in fact under the surface are paddling ferociously."...
My name and my blog and my life have been intertwined for the last five years, which is really just a fraction of my life--but in 2015, it can seem like nothing existed before there was Google and Facebook there to confirm it.
When you Google my...