Travel
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What Home Feels Like
How interesting it is to be comforted by being known. I’m sure the thrill of travel for most people is in the newness of it all. New people. New places. New foods. New sights and smells and energies. New photos for their Instagram and videos for their TikToks. And I can understand that. But what…
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Reconciliation
My first thought being back in Phuket: it feels like just yesterday that I left. Like the last year of my life didn’t even happen. As we drive past the airport and take that left turn at the light, I vividly remember and watch in my mind’s eye my journey in the other direction. The…
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The Journey Back to Phuket
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post like this, but it’s not for lack of stories to tell. This one in particular brought me back here because it just honestly has to be released. Strap yourself in for the journey back to Phuket. From pretty early on in the year I was certain that…
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Quarantine in a Storm
I am so so grateful for shelter. Just 8 days into living in Cayman and I’ve endured my first storm, sitting by the sliding glass doors as I watch the trees take a battering. I’ve never watched a storm in this way before. In some ways I’m fascinated and in others I’m slightly horrified. I…
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The Journey of Leaving
I have officially started the grieving process. To really lean into the depth of what it has meant for me to leave Asia after 4 years to come back and live in the west again. Leaving the children. Leaving my relationship. Leaving an epic community and life I had intentionally carved out for myself behind….
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I Just Go Where the Tradewind Blows
This year I will move back to the Caribbean. I haven’t lived there since I was a child, and for some reason I find myself more nervous to move there than I had been to go to China or come to Thailand. When hearing of my story, one of the first things people always ask…
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Choose, For Yourself
I just wanted to come on here to say to my peers in the US that you do not HAVE to stay there and suffer. You don’t have to fall into this belief system that incessant struggle is a necessary part of the journey. You don’t have to fall into the paradigm of the false…
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We Like to Complain, Don’t We?
I’ve been living in Thailand for 1.5 years already, quickly approaching 2. My dream destination for all my life, if ever there was one. No doubt, a dream destination for many people in the world. I moved here to work at a beautiful Montessori school that I found online when I was looking to escape…
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A Letter From My Brother
Brother unlucky came to visit. He travelled upward of 36 hours to come and see me. And he stayed for 12 days. During those 12 days, we went to Bangkok, Koh Phi Phi, and Bali. They were all beautiful in their own ways. Bali, specifically, was magical. But, in the end, it didn’t really matter…
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China is Killing Me Slowly
And I can’t determine if I mean that figuratively or literally or a little bit of both. I just got out of the hospital that I vowed to never return to not even as a dead person. I’m ok, I’m not terminally ill or labelled with any dis-ease. My body is just continuously responding quickly…