8:24pm and I’ve pulled myself away from loved ones to write this. Belly full of salad and pasta and apple cinnamon muffins. Sunny days here lately, which make for beautiful views but melting powder. It’s the only time in my life I see it’s sunny outside so decide it’s a “day in”. Days in consist…

Putting on my layers and strapping up my boots for the snow – Oh Wonder plays on my speaker and the song All We Do is on repeat. “I’ve been, upside down, I don’t wanna be the right way round, I’ll find paradise on the ground”. The words reverberate my soul and all I can…

One day during casual conversation with a soldier she learns the soldier had just been in conversation with a man who shared the same name as her Uncle. She digs deeper and is led to believe it is her Uncle, and she begins a search. There is a check-in booth at every zone and each…

I am sitting outside underneath an overhang as the rain falls around me. It is June 2015 and I’m in Ban Lung, Cambodia, a small town in the the north-eastern part of the country known for jungle trekking and less-touristy terrain. I’m alone and loving it. There are less than five other people staying where…

Cristina from Cotati Coffee shop, (coffee shop, coffee shop -)  me, dancing to the piano man’s tunes,  waltzing,  jigging,  smiling and laughing and crying Being the person I imagine myself in Love with, touching the keys and crying.  touching the keys and hearing something my  soul  already knew.  hearing something my  soul  already knew… patiently using my…

I’m a Super Bowl baby. On January 22, 1989 the San Fransisco 49ers were playing the Cincinnati Bengals and my dad was found in the cafeteria watching the game on a “break” when my mom got the go from the doctors to push. The nurses had to go find him. It’s January 22, 2016 today,…

I’m sitting at the lodge’s bar and just had a tequila shot for my birthday. It’s technically not my birthday yet, but who cares. Dancing Queen by ABBA is on and everyone at the bar has their arms up doing a synchronized sway side to side. There’s always a reason to celebrate.  Kris and Paul,…

I am exploring an abandoned building next to the lodge. Moving slow, alone, I tread lightly through the space. It feels stable, and I’m pretty sure it is, but I move with caution anyways. I wander with curiosity, uncovering objects that were once given life by the people who touched them, made them, used them:…

Well, usually I don’t know the title of my entries until they’re done but my yesterday set that one up for me, didn’t it? :) Not gonna lie, I’m looking forward to having the word Fart return to the back burner of my life. Also, I feel like it’s only appropriate to give a proper…

As I write this I sit cross legged on my bed, my back against the wall, the only light shining an orange glow from the sun-shaped heater in my room. The window is open because, let’s be honest, my farts have been stinking and I currently live in an old linen closet. Didn’t expect me…

I went snow-shoeing for the first time ever today. Majestic moments at its best. Snow powdered rolling hills, open white space, grey clouds slowing sweeping across the sky; momentary glimpses of the top of Mt. Myoko – sacred Mt. Myoko.  No one had been out since the last snow fall, plains of untouched terrain to…

I was in the back of my mom’s blue ford when I found out Santa wasn’t real. I was in the third grade and had apparently done something to really piss off one of my friends during school that day; I can’t even remember what I did to upset her but as revenge she looked…