I know I’m a little late to ring in the new year, but I’ve always been a bit slow at transitioning. It takes me a few weeks to warm up to 2015 and to stop writing 2014 on everything at the office. Maybe this is partially due to the fact that I don’t make New […]
Because I’m hungry and thinking of Florence, here’s a little story about lasagna: Seven years ago in Florence, Italy I ate the best plate of lasagna in my life. I was sitting on a wooden bench across from a pair of middle aged Italian housewives enjoying a quick meal and an elderly Italian man to […]
Originally posted on A Stranger In Paradise:
26 May – 27 May, 2014 I was tired, sad, and scared when I said goodbye to my boyfriend, Zac, and boarded a mini-bus at 7:30 am bound for Belgrade. I’d never traveled by myself, and here I was, about to go to a place I knew fairly…
Originally posted on As of Now:
For my latest project/experiment I am going to write down the latest news from three randomly picked cities in the Arab world. I will also include cities in Israel and Turkey. To do this I put together a list that included the 10 most populated cities of each country (though…
Before moving on to Ljubljana, I forgot to include this memorable picture of Mo and I at Vintgar gorge last time. This might help explain why we got lost coming back. Bright and early Wednesday morning (about 11am) we packed up our things and headed for adorable Bled bus station to catch a ride to […]
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24 May – 25 May, 2014 It was a hot, muggy Saturday when we took the bus from Veliko Tarnovo to Sofia, our final city in Bulgaria. We got into Sofia in the afternoon, and stored our bags at the bus stop and walked around downtown. Sofia is…
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22 May – 23 May, 2014 Weeks ago, Zac and I woke early in our hostel in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to gather up our stuff and hoof it to the other side of town to take a bus to Veliko Tarnovo. The bus station was old, bleak, and Communistic,…
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Well kids, I did it. I made it to Europe and back! I’ve already been home a week, which seems incredible. Part of me feels like I’ve been home ages already and part of me feels like I just got here. This feeling of limbo was not helped…
I’m leaving for Europe tomorrow!! (Hopefully. I have this constantly lurking fear that any time I go to the airport, the TSA officer will look down her nose at my passport and say ‘you? Oh we don’t let your kind in here’. Then she will wave her arms for the big burly security officers to […]
Recently I have been tackling the daunting task of making Tom’s Toys social media literate. Tom’s Toys has never had a great history of online brand building. We’ve had a Facebook page for four years that peaked at 100 followers. We have a Twitter account which I have forgotten the password to. We have a […]
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