Last week I spent a few days in London staying at Dan's mom's place, and one evening we went through her old photo albums so I could see the obligatory embarrassing photos of Daniel as a baby. Except Dan was such an angelic looking child that there were no embarrassing shots to ...
Confessions
Cool Kids Don’t Travel
It's not often I dish out life advice on this blog, but in one month and 4 days I'll be 29, which I've heard is the official age when you're supposed to start helping out the young people. Yes? So today I'm going to talk about what I think all of us can agree is the most ...
8 Awesome Things About Living in Another Language, And 8 Things That Suck
I'm a big fan of foreign language learning, but the reality of living in another language? It's so much fun! And the absolute worst. I don't know when I've felt less emotionally stable. Oh wait yes I do, it was when I was living in Japanese. In fact every time I feel ...
Confession: I Travel Like A Girl
Some of you guys have shrewdly observed that I’m now traveling with a boy. What?! I know, it’s a change. Now I no longer have to ask strangers to help me lift my bag into absurdly high luggage compartments, I have access to an iPod with good music (his, not mine), and not ...
Why I’d Never Move to Japan Again
For the past few minutes I've been sitting frozen with my fingers on my keyboard trying to think of a way to start a post where I'm basically going to say that I hated my time living in Japan. Whoops, spoiler, I guess now you guys don't need to bother reading more ...