I just had that moment hit me, finally. It took me two weeks of being here, it wasn’t until a few minutes ago while I was standing on the roof of our new guesthouse that I felt the full force of reality: I’m living in Afghanistan. Since I landed, these past 14 days have been spent shuttling back and forth through traffic from my room to the office, stuck indoors and on the street level for about 99% of theRead More
I’m in the process of half-settling into Ryan’s new place in Phoenix, and exploring a city and state that holds so much potential to be home. I’m loving everything about the desert, and trying to dig into lots of projects that will keep me busy until I leave. So far, that’s resulted in cooking Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, and Chinese [Hong Kong] dishes, baking bread, painting flower pots and growing vegetable seedlings for the patio, and making these hanging lanterns [above].Read More
I’ve tried blogging before and was never very good at being consistent. Same with my paper-and-pen journals. But since 2011 is about to bring a world of new experiences, I decided that I’d better start again. I think my brain is craving a mechanism for reflection and creative thought, after the ups and downs of the past year which left me feeling achingly stagnant. And while it seems my whole life so far has been a series of transitions fromRead More