Lot of things are changing and I should be more excited, more grateful for all of this. But I am just a bit... meh. Even as the world moves on and tries to reshape itself around the pandemic, forcing everyone to believe its all in the rear-view now, throwing open doors and welcoming everyone "back", something inside me knows on an atomic level that absolutely nothing is the same and can never be the same. …
Category: Personal
Technically, yes, we are 20 days already into 2020 and also, as it turns out we have one whole year before *this decade* ends, but what the hell. It has been trending all over social media to lists highlights from this decade, so I am going to give it a shot! …
(i.e. the last one, the one that ended like 7 months ago) So.. I may have jinxed myself with my last travel blog (the one where I finally visited Canada) and talking about putting up a post within a month. At this point in time, I have visited THREE more countries, two new places in the USA, and there are no signs on the horizon for even edited travel pictures, forget a full blown blog …
Why doesn’t anyone ever write about the break-up of a friendship, even though it feels so much more screwed up than a break-up of a romantic relationship?! This is full of horrible achy feels, so you can skip out on this if you’ve never been in this position – I just need to get it out of my system, because I just blocked someone out of everywhere and I don’t ever do that. I am …
“What’s so special about Princeton anyway?” you asked on the first sunny day this past summer, in your 9274th attempt to get me to move to New York City. My answers over the last eleven months at that point had varied from a mock-scandalized “..uh? Michelle Obama???” to the dramatically whined “nothing. absolutely nothing.” You manage to ask me every single time you see me. I give you a new answer every time you ask. …
2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …