I love traveling. I also love reading. And it seems the more I do both, the more I find my assumptions of the world knocked out from under my feet. My friend in Seoul lives in the smallest apartment I have ever stepped foot in. She has an 8×8 square foot of space for her […]
We all have our own personal heroes, those larger-than-life figures and role models we idolize and aspire to become. But as we mature and grow in our journey, some of these stars seem to lose their luster–their pedestals become shorter and their work less awe-inspiring than we used to remember. But as I’ve progressed in […]
Jeanny and Phil have been with me ever since the beginning. And by “beginning,” I really do mean beginning. Many years back, when social blogging site Xanga was alive and kicking, Jeanny and I knew each other because we were among a group of what some have coined “Xanga celebrities.” She was still in nursing […]