Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson on the roof of the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Photograph by Erin Brown In a bizarre twist of Ryan Air-inspired fate last year,…
Jet Lag Makes for a Great Skydive!
Australia. After deciding on a very short notice trip to the large island, I got on a plan from Doha and started my, almost, 17 hour journey. To date this…
Body Memories: What is Trauma?
Experiencing a fire can cause trauma. But what can help? Image from wildforestfires.com. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s somatic memory. It’s what makes your stomach ache, your throat…
The Big Move
If you think Adventure is scary, try routine — Paulo Coelho December 2008. My father had passed away a month earlier. I felt numb, unable to feel joy or pain….
Historic Berlin: Ich bin ein Berliner
Travel to Berlin was a dream to me. I don’t know why inside of me I have this will to discover Germany’s mysteries, but I do. It is very hard…
Quick Bites: Citizen in Richmond, Virginia
As a food-obsessed New Yorker, it is a little difficult for me to admit that I take my city for granted all too often. Regardless of the time of day…
Connecticut Is My Heart
At a party last night, during introductions to friends of friends, someone asked, “Where are you from?” – a pretty standard getting to know you question. When I answered, “Connecticut,”…
Ghosts of Birthdays Past
Celebrating birthdays in a new place can lead to a host of emotions—enthusiasm, joy, freedom, anxiety, or even nostalgia. This year, it was yet another reminder of how much can…
Coming home to Sao Paulo
By Patricia Galves Derolle I love traveling, but it’s always a delight to come back home. I guess you just realize how much appreciation you have for your own land…
Good-bye Bologna
My last week in Italy was a surreal blur of exams, papers, parties, late night dancing, watching the sun come up from my balcony. Until all of a sudden I…
Going home again (kind of sucks)
I don’t know about you, but I never really miss a place when I’m not there. Of course I miss people, but the place – no. I’m pretty adaptable. Put…
Finding home: Here and now, and…then?
Consult the self-improvement powers that be, and you’re likely to hear one of two things: 1) Embrace the present 2) Envision the future What you won’t hear, what is to…
Marathon Tourism
Since 2006, “running a marathon” has also come to mean “travel excuse.” In fact, I cannot imagine myself running a marathon (whether half or full) in a town I’ve been…
A Few Favourites
Photographs are an excellent way to save memories of people, places, friends, events, sunsets, scenery etc. While at times it is important to put the camera down and just look…
The angst of losing a parent
By Poonam Kirpal, Guest Writer I always maintained that with the biological clock ticking, midlife is the logical time when one loses a parent and, being the practical one that…