The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. —Dr. Seuss At the end of last year, I set some reading goals for 2019: Read 52+ books Increase the percentage of POC authors in my list (I can …
Category: Armchair Travels
What Bourdain Day Means to Me
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you …
Reading Wrap Up 2018
“Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.”― Laurie Helgoe Reading transports us. Last year, I strived to read books that took me away from the comfort of the world I know and show …
What Makes a Best Picture?
Warning: This is not a travel post. While I could have spun it into an #armchairtravels blog about the transportive qualities of these films, I didn’t. We haven’t gone anywhere in a long time, and the posts I’ve been wanting to write about our upcoming travel plans are still in …
Favorite Reads of 2017
I usually try to read a 50/50 mix of fiction and non, though I think non-fiction may have taken a lead this year. Below are my favorite reads from 2017. These are all books in which setting play a major role, stories that would not work in other places or …
Forget Your Troubles, Come On, Get Hygge: Fighting off SAD the Danish Way
SAD sucks, which is why I might be mildly obsessed with hygge.
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Where Did I Go?
I’ve been quiet — too quite for my own liking! — since our New York trip in early May. I’ve been slacking on the blogging front and I don’t have a good excuse for it. Just… life. We didn’t go anywhere the rest of May or June, so our focus …
