meditative moments

What follows are short bursts from my journal from this past week spent in Greece: “The air is soft and warm. Like every breath is a sip of milk and honey.””The black sand beach scorches the skin beneath my feet before the cold clear water offers its calming relief....

ciao for now

It has been exactly 3 months and 13 days that I have lived in Italy. The time I have spent here has been so amazing. I have learned, seen, and experienced more in the past few months that I could have thought possible. Italy has been so good to...

A week in Positano

Journal entry from October 18th, 2017 So a lot has happened over the past few days. On Thursday afternoon, after finishing my last mid-term exam (which really wasn’t so much of an exam as it was a walking tour/ lecture of Florence’s literary sites) my mom and aunt Jen...

from paris with love

A few weeks ago I took a weekend trip to Paris to visit one of my best friends from high school who is going to school there. The weekend was so perfect, like something out of a movie. The following is a peek into a few excerpts from my...