My Book Update: Blue Skies is Coming!
March 16, 2020 – the day I left Ukraine. It’s been one year since I said a painful and sudden goodbye to my life in Ukraine: my friends, my colleagues,…
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A New Season
I feel it in my body, in my mind, and in my being. I’m tired of scrolling on social media, of trying to beat an algorithm with my writing, of…
Hidden Light
I had a plan for 2020. In an instant, it was all gone. My Fulbright was over. I didn’t get to say goodbye to all of my students, friends, and…
A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Zero Waste Home
Kitchen: wooden soap dishes // savon de marseille soap // dish sponge and scrubber // bamboo straws // Bathroom: bamboo toilet brush // refillable shampoo and conditioner // bamboo toothbrushes //…
Blue Skies – An Unexpected Journey Home
I’ve waited a week to write this post as life still feels frozen to me. I have moments where I feel like I am just a body going through the…
Coffee as Language of Communication
I never thought I’d write a post about coffee, but I love it too much not to. As my friends can tell you, over the last few years of traveling,…
Riding the Wave of Loneliness – The Silence of Living Abroad Solo
Eight weeks. Eight full weeks of adventuring to new corners of the world and to familiar ones, of laughing with friends who I couldn’t imagine life without, of being reunited…
When a House Becomes a Home – Living Abroad Meaningfully
Written December, 2019 // I was running and running. When Thursday turned into Friday, I ran to a new place, masked by my desire to travel and see that which…
A Journey of Love & Self – Three Months in Ukraine
I sat down on an antique floral couch in the corner of a cozy cafe. I was in Olomouc, a small city in the Czech Republic on day five of…
My First Time Heading East – Kramatorsk, Ukraine
When people hear that I live in Ukraine, the first question they usually ask is “Is it safe?”. I feel comfortable saying yes, as my experience has been in the…