I got to Paris without a single idea of what there was to do. The only reason I even found myself in the city was because I had scored a $20 bus ticket from London and because, hello, it’s Paris. An aura of romance surrounds the city. Visions of fresh croissants, bottles of wine and […]
Taking it Easy in London
After my first couple days in London I felt like I needed a breather. In the 36 hours I had been there I had seen Buckingham Palace, walked over the London Bridge more times than I could count, visited Westminster Abbey, saw the Big Ben under construction, wandered through Regent’s Park, went on a pub […]
Snapshot of 20
I woke up this morning to an alarm that came too early. With heavy eyes I pulled my hair back and splashed my face with cold water, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. Reaching for the coffee in the morning had by now become an old habit. While the machine whirred behind me I peered […]
Lessons From LA
Wow. I can hardly believe it’s been a year since I lived in California. It’s almost like Seattle and LA are on two ends of a scale. While the cool, rainy tree ridden Seattle will always have my heart, I gotta admit living in California was a whirlwind. You got Los Angeles, Hollywood, museums, show […]
I Dropped Out of College and Bought a Plane Ticket to Hawaii
After dramatically deciding to leave school in early 2016, packing up my car and deciding to move back up the coast, I found myself in the middle of a quarter life crisis. I had always defined myself as being a student. I marked the beginning of a new year in September, browsed course catalogs for […]
Doing the Damn Thing
I remember turning in my withdrawal paperwork like it was yesterday. While everyone else at my school was gearing up for the new semester I was packing up my dorm room to go back home. I had just flown in the night before and had no idea that this was how I would be spending […]
Four Days in DC
After zoning out so bad in the terminal that I almost missed my flight, managing to hop on a plane after only a 30 minute layover, and fighting off taxi drivers after struggling to drag my overstuffed duffle out through the airport doors, I had finally made it. I was in the land of freedom, […]
New York Energy
“I can’t explain it, it’s just the energy,” I could hear the passion in my best friend’s voice trickling through the receiver. “I swear, you’re gonna love it. You just need to come.” I’m a college student and I work a minimum wage job but listening to my friend describe New York City was enough […]
What Does Your Soul Look Like?
It’s not a secret that society focuses on outward appearances. A person’s beauty is more likely determined by the length of their eyelashes than the depth of their personality, their dreams or the way that they always smile. While TV commercials will ask you to diminish the bags under your eyes or to defrizz your […]
New Year, New Me
When I walk to class in the morning the birds are chirping a little louder and the sun is starting to peek its head above the horizon instead of staying hidden for another hour. It’s January and there is a sense of newness in the air. The earth has just completed another cycle around the […]