Happy New Year, y’all!

Last year right around this time, I wrote a post entitled “10 Things I Learned After 10 Months of Traveling (with pictures!).” That post was my way of wrapping up my big ten-month tour of Southeast Asia, which had included a whopping grand total of, ahem, five countries. Because, apparently, [...]

Merry Christmas*, y’all.

Now I know that we said that we wouldn’t be getting each other presents this year. (We said that, right? Or at least I know I said that.)

But I got you something anyway!

Ta-da!

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Well, hello there.

Long time, no see.

I apologize for being a bit absent on the interwebs lately.

I know you were all terribly worried.

Possibly you thought I was kidnapped by Mongolian street bandits.

Or maybe you thought I had finally succumbed to one of the many Nineteenth Century diseases I’m convinced [...]

A while back, I wrote that one of the things I love about Americans is that we know how to dream big. As kids, we all want to be rock stars and dolphin trainers and astronauts when we grow up. And, bless our little hearts, we all believe that given enough willpower and elbow [...]

Ten years ago I was, what kids these days might call, a hot mess.

I was living in Washington, DC, at the time. I had moved there because a friend from college had an available room in his apartment. I was working two jobs in order to pay rent and chip away at the [...]