Category: Personal
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Counting Stars
I know very little about stars and constellations. “That is the North Star,” my dad would say, pointing to a speck in the sky – far brighter than the rest, sure – but a speck, like all the others, nonetheless. The sky has a marvelous but complicated language of its own, which always leaves me…
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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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A Weekend for the Kids
“What would you do, Ate Patricia?” I’ve just scraped off the last bits of longganisa from my plate and my little sister, Dani, is sitting beside me, asking me what I would do if I came across a giant dragon’s egg. I look into her probing eyes and try to imagine the scene. I couldn’t…
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To my 40-year-old self
Last night, my next door neighbor told me about a guy who, at twenty-three, decided to walk 4,000 miles across America. All he had was a 50-pound backpack, a mandolin, and a sign that read “Walking to Listen.” Andrew Forsthoefel talked to the people he met along the way and asked them questions about their lives…
Trish in Transit 