After an early Saturday morning run and a coffee from my favorite cafe in the Lower East Side, my friend Kate and I were heading out for the ultimate day in Brooklyn. Once we realized the train we wanted wasn't running on the weekend, we just hopped...
I can't believe it's already been a year since I visited Southeast Asia. I spent a glorious three months reading on beaches, eating from makeshift motorcycle food carts, riding motorbikes around Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
I was nervous...
One of my friends recently remarked that she doesn't think she's ever seen my mom not smiling or laughing: how awesome is that? In that moment, I became so much more OK with "becoming my mother."
Here's my mom's life in a nutshell: she grew up...
I first fell in love with Boston when the autumn was a million shades of red and gold: my obsession with the Northeastern city deepened in the deep, clear blue of late winter-bordering-on-spring.
When I visited Boston in October, it...
I was scrolling through Facebook photos the other day when I noticed one of me in Southeast Asia--on a beach, overlooking a rice paddy, something suitably exotic--and noticed that a friend of mine commented: "You don't belong in...