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Welp. Apparently I’ve been partying too hard in Nepal because this morning I woke up sick. JK. I haven’t been partying – the air here is horribly polluted and I bet that has a large part of why my throat…

In 2015, I was offered a job to teach English in Japan. During my time in college, I’d been studying to become certified in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and I was convinced no other path awaited me…

Well, I did it. I packed my life into a 65-liter backpack plus a 20-liter carry-on.  And I’m sitting here staring at it, thinking, but do I have enough stuff? Obviously, yes, and I can always buy more. But that’s…

In fifty-five days, I board a plane bound for Kathmandu, Nepal (well, Seattle –> LA –> Hong-Kong –> Kathmandu, but that’s beside the point). Never before have my thoughts been so consumed with the future, not in this sense anyway.…

The first time I laid eyes on what would become my future home, I knew I needed to live there. Nestled on a quiet hill across the street from Minto Brown Park, this renovated basement apartment, which I now refer…

Welp. I really dropped the ball on posting one blog a week. OOPS. I’ve had my reasons for it, though. I’ve been consumed with thinking about one thing and not much else. But I couldn’t talk about that one thing…

I grew up in a very religious household, which meant that most of my young life was spent in and around church in some capacity: Vacation Bible School; youth group; prayer group; family Bible study; Sunday school. You get the…

Life rarely works out the way you expect it to.  We all know this sentiment in different ways.  I remember standing across from my soon-to-be husband at our wedding ceremony in Ventura, CA, completely lost in his eyes, oblivious to…

I am thrilled you’re here! Seriously. Sharing this piece of myself, this huge piece, is very scary. But here we are! Embracing fears and being vulnerable and whatnot. This blog is for myself first, but I do hope that at…