For the last six and a half years, I haven’t owned a car. I’ve borrowed them, certainly, but my primary form of locomotion was my functional legs. It made no…
The journey to…?
“Of journeying the benefits are many; the freshness it brings to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown…
Discovering the Beauty of Dependence
I had a revelation yesterday. Well, actually it began last Friday. Well, actually I’ve been piecing things together for the past several months, but didn’t begin to articulate it until…
Body Scanners and Why They Worry Me, Part II
Continued from here. This is what I know: nearly a decade ago, several men hijacked passenger jets and flew planes into buildings in New York City and Washington D.C. Those…
Body Scanners and Why They Worry Me
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the new security measures involved in domestic and international air travel, about body scanners and enhanced pat-downs, and about the reasons for them,…
Free Things to Do in Any City
Since my budget is pretty much within the “nothing to under $5” range at the moment with a dwindling savings account and very unreliable “paychecks,” I’ve been trying to get…
If This Sweater Could Talk…
I am having a common predicament this morning. I sit on my floor contemplating which part of the day to dress myself for. My options: the hot and sunny morning,…
On Travel and Fantasy.
The grouch in me wants to start this post with the standby gothic horror story introduction, “It was a dark and stormy night.” But that wouldn’t be entirely truthful. It…
Arachnophobia
How many of you are arachnophobes? Apiphobes? Ophidiophobes? If you raised your hand, you understand what I’m about to talk about. This post, like so many of my other recent…
The Psychology of Travel, Part 2
After my article last week looking at why travel is a basic human desire, I decided to play journalist and interview a few travel enthusiasts. My journalistic task was simple…
On baggage, weightiness, and traveling light.
I’ve had a lot of trouble writing this post. I had trouble deciding what to write about, and finally settled on writing about the idea of “traveling light:” what the…
Happy Birthday Go Girls!!
What an exciting milestone, happy one year birthday Go Girl! In the past few years I’ve had too many milestones to keep track of, but the one that stands out…
Farewell to the City of Dreaming Spires
“Friends are the sunshine of life.”—John Hay I cheated, and nearly twenty minutes before my graduation ceremony from Oxford University was set to commence, I ripped open the contents of…
Turns out avoiding a career helped me find one…
In 2008, I had finished university and was meant to be (according to all the post-graduation ‘what to do now’ and ‘welcome to the rest of your life’ guides) on…
Six Months from Now
My Nina (godmother) told me last winter, “Megs, six months from now, you will look back on this situation and be amazed at how far you have come.” I was…