This will be the first time that I will have lived in the same city for two years in a row since I was in high school. I have packed…
Feast Full of Thanks
Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, I realize that it has been over a week. And yes, I realize that you might not celebrate Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving is a holiday that should be…
Peace the Way it Should Be
“This wedding is the way the world should be,” Marvin says to me quietly. “Everyone all together.” I agree with him as I look up from our walk by the…
Belgium with Saarch
Saar is one of the most amazing women I have ever met. She is constantly on the go, traveling to a new corner of the world and dazzling me with…
On Returning
There are three people waiting for me when I get off the plane at the airport in São Tomé e Príncipe: Dany, the driver for Ned (the director of STeP…
There Once was a GoGirl in Ireland
I tried to write a limerick for this post, but the truth is that rhyming is not my strongest field. Besides, limericks are supposed to be obscene by nature, and…
Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in College Anymore
I am back in America and anxious to see all of my friends, so traveling to three cities in six days didn’t seem like a big deal when I planned…
In Honor of a Go Girl.
When I was growing up in the Adirondacks Mountains of upstate New York, my years revolved around two events: Christmas, and Grandma’s Summer Camp, an unofficial camping trip led by…
A Holiday From a Holiday…
So often when you are speaking with friends who are away travelling or when you yourself are in faraway lands you are more than likely to at once hear/think personally,…
Roadtrip Finale
Traveling with two boys in a Honda Civic has its moments, but there is nothing quite like the hug you get from a friend you miss. The three of us…
The Ones That Have Gone Before Us
By Beth Just before my road trip home to New Hampshire to visit my mom for her birthday, an old coworker in Boston told me the ugly news that our…
You Can See The Stars
By Beth My friend Alessandro is visiting the USA for the first time while I am in São Tomé (see included picture; he is on the left). I met Alessandro…