An Introvert’s Step-by-Step Guide to Her 40-th Birthday Party Step 1: Get it Straight. By birthday party, an introvert means being alone. That is the only way she authentically parties. By introvert, a girl could…
Posts tagged transitions
re-defining home
(The following question was posed to me by the editor of TravelBlogs.com) What does home mean to you after traveling for so long? When I first left the country, I was an angry girl; ashamed…
citizen of the bardo
I think it was this photo. … that made me and my girlfriend change our plans, mid-sentence from… “Let’s just go. We’ve been planning this trip to Kashmir for months!” to… Fresh protests erupt in…
strange math
I’m in Boulder, Colorado. I’ve been deferring that declaration; hesitant only because not even I know what that means. There are certainly known variables – like that I’m broke, that I love my job and…
unbiased auspices
An hour passes by in minutes before the stranger and I finally inhale from our excited conversation when we are alerted, via a passerby, that the bus we were waiting for has stopped running. We…
sword of words
*ouch. change can hurt* A notice on the door tugs on a corner of my subconscious, but my ambition (as ambitions do) to complete the mission with which I set forth speaks over the whispering…
haunting home
(the sunrise, this morning, in oregon) ***** (A letter to two former neighbors, dear friends, and fellow divemasters, who continue to live in Taganga, in the hotel of the house where I was living in…