Disclaimer: While this post is mainly geared toward grad students, there are points in here that I think are important for everyone to remember, and …
Remembering to Live Your Life While Finishing a PhD
Small Gestures of Kindness in an “Unfriendly” City
Beep-beep-beep-beep. The streetcar door was closing, its little red light flashing. Rain was starting to come down harder. The woman ran toward the door, feet …
Coffee and Language Barriers: Remembering the First Day Living in Austria
After a transatlantic flight, I have one first order of business, and one only: Coffee. (The second, if I’m landing in the UK, is to …
23 Times the Little Things Were the Best Part of Traveling
True to my own personal mission to stop and appreciate the small, often unexpected things in life while everything is go-go-go, today I’d like to …
Adventures in Asheville, NC: A Solo Trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Mountains, music, craft beer, eclectic food, and free spirits. Let me just start with this: if you haven’t been to Asheville before, I highly, highly …
Why You Don’t Need to Justify Being a Vegetarian
When I was about eleven, one of my best friends told me that she was a vegetarian. She didn’t eat meat, and she made sure …
Discovering Favorite Places in a New City
For me, it’s always about the cafés when I travel someplace new or am looking for a new haunt near home. Parks, bookstores, maybe a …
A Year Reading Hemingway
Okay, Here goes. This is to follow up on my post from last week, where I wrote, in parentheses, “And I want to read all …
Rediscovering Literature
I never read The Great Gatsby in high school. Nor did I read The Color Purple. Or Lord of the Flies. Emma. Fahrenheit 451. Great …
Eating Dinner Alone in a Restaurant
The first time it happened, I think, was in 2008, in a place called Dornbirn, Austria. I had visited friends in Germany for a few …