January 24, 2014
Twelve weeks. It’s a school term. A season. A financial quarter. It’s also the amount of time left until my life changes forever. That’s me and my increasingly large, round stomach. I’m 28 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. I’m due on April 18, Good Friday. I haven’t said anything on the blog until now […]
January 9, 2014
When I went on my cross-country road trip after college (10 years ago this May — gulp), my friend Nicole and I had plans to reach at least Oregon. But our plans changed. We made it as far as San Francisco before cutting over through Nevada to Utah and then up to Wyoming. I never […]
November 15, 2013
On my flight home from a short trip to Miami a few weeks ago, I read a National Geographic cover story about a storm chaser and engineer who had died in a tornado back in May. I read the story for the duration of the flight, so gripped by it that I stopped to reread […]
September 25, 2013
I love being in New York, but I miss Sydney. It’s in a new way, not in the fashion I used to talk about, how America had more convenience and options yet Australia had less crime and more friendliness. Conversations comparing two countries can be useful. Discussions about which place has better infrastructure, transport, health […]
May 28, 2013
Believe it or not, I wrote an entire goodbye Australia post last night. It was draining, and writing it before bed probably contributed to a restless sleep. Somehow, even though my blog posts usually save automatically, and I could’ve sworn I clicked “save draft,” it didn’t save. Not one, single word. So here I sit, […]
February 13, 2013
In the months before I moved to Australia, my friend Nicole and I became obsessed with the reality show Bridezillas. I couldn’t turn my eyes away from such extreme bitchiness, craziness and wastefulness. Weddings with $100K pricetags, receptions planned down to the most minute of details, such fuss over trivial embellishments no one would remember. Flash-forward three […]
