• My love of travel was inspired by my Aunt Daryl, my mom’s sister. Throughout my childhood, she would bring us back little toys or trinkets from her adventures, and any spare change from the countries she visited. When I was sixteen, she sent me a…

    +: Letters to my Aunt: Phnom Penh

    Letters to my Aunt: Phnom Penh

  • Six months in China….where has the time gone? I’ve been remiss on my chronicling my adventures…at least on here. With the change of seasons and adjusting to new routines, I got out of the habit writing in the AM. I started taking yoga and Pilates…

    +: 2024

    2024

  • There are definitely days I feel like Bill Murray being paid to sell a fancy whisky, just nodding and smiling at most of what’s being said. My Mandarin is enough to get by but is seriously lacking when it comes to having a full conversation.…

    +: Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation

  • Who will you decide to be today?

    +: Daily Meditation

    Daily Meditation

  • My first dinner with locals all I remember (besides the delicious food) is people putting food in my bowl for me. They wanted to make sure I got the best of what there was to try, and when I had finished they made sure to…

    +: Chinese Hospitality

    Chinese Hospitality

  • There are some days everything goes wrong; your VPN isn’t working, cultural adjustments and miscommunications at work, you order some food and they give you something completely different from what you said, someone literally stops and stares at you for being foreign. The life can…

    +: This is China

    This is China

  • +: 1.4 billion staring at their phone…

    1.4 billion staring at their phone…

  • It took nearly 8 years but we are back. Wuhan and I have both grown. There are high rises as far as the eye can see and highways connecting all the major districts; more bridges crossing the Yangtze River; more subways underground and more cars…

    +: Return to Wuhan

    Return to Wuhan