Category: Blog
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In which I lose the words to adequately describe the sea
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t. – Christopher Paolini
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What If Wednedays
What if questions are my favorite things to ask. When I was a kid, my neighbors and I would come up with a handful of kooky scenarios, which we would often test and carry out in full force (What if we went to McDonald’s with lipstick scribbles on our faces? What if we ate fish…
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Hello 2014!
Around this time last year I was feeling dazed, confused, and scared. I had just gotten out of work and I was going over my plan for 2013 thinking, “Holy crap, you’re crazy! What are you going to do?” I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do, a few trips booked for…
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Finding Christmas in the Mountains
A few days before Christmas, I found myself on top of a mountain, covered in four layers of clothes and still shivering from the cold. Climbing Pulag in the rain was one of the most challenging things I’ve done this year (or maybe, ever) and I’ll share more about the experience later on, but for…
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A Trip to Thailand
A few days after Korea, I got my butt on a plane to Thailand with my friend, Mary. We booked the tickets a couple of months in advance with the seoul, I mean sole, purpose of seeing the floating lights in Chiang Mai. I was in Ilocos with the Bookie team when Ate Mer called,…
