Not long ago I came across this quote, “Travel does not exist without home…if we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.” – Josh… Read more
I hardly ever post on Saturdays but in light of the horrific attacks on Paris yesterday, I felt the need to write at least something here. If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I adore Paris. Paris for me is something of a second… Read more
Today Nick and I have been married for five years. Five years of pure joy, exotic adventures, emotional highs and lows, separation and spending every minute together. We’ve weathered our fair share of storms in our first five years of marriage and ten years together and while you won’t hear… Read more
Today I turn 29. Today I enter the last year of my twenties. Today I leave behind one of the hardest years of my life, if not the hardest I’ve ever experienced. Today I move past all that 28 brought, good and bad, and embrace a new year ahead. As… Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about love. About all that we can love and all that entails. You see a decade ago I gave my heart away in love, I fell in love for the first time and I knew my life would never be the same. A decade… Read more
Today is Nick’s 29th birthday and as I contemplated what to write today, I realized that as we enter our last year in our twenties, I can’t quite believe all we’ve done together. We’ll have been together for 10 years in October this year and in that time, a… Read more
First off, even though it has nothing to do with this post, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Since I’m Irish, I feel the need to shout that from the rooftops! And moving on, before we get full blown into trip posts from our adventure through London, Spain and Portugal, I… Read more
I know this might sound strange, but I don’t subscribe to the bucket list idea. The idea of creating this list of things to do before you die has been around for a while now and especially in the blogging world, it’s really taken root. I began thinking about this a… Read more
I haven’t written anything for a while on my childhood in the Middle East, though for numerous reasons as of late it’s been on my mind a lot. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have been different had I not been born in Saudi Arabia and every time… Read more
I had another post planned for today but as I sit here tonight (writing this Wednesday night) after the horrendous events of the day in Paris, I can’t help but know that this post is important to write and one that I feel is immensely due considering my love for… Read more
As the year comes to a close, I have to say I’m ready to let 2014 slip away and look forward to a brighter 2015. This past year taught me a lot, perhaps more than many of the years that came before it. I started 2014 in my own little… Read more
I wrote this post on my way to Hawaii to see my parents last week, watching the sun rising outside the plane windows as the Portland rain faded into fluffy white clouds on the horizon over the Pacific. There is something about watching the sun rise high above the world,… Read more
I’ve spent the last week trying to write this post in my mind, trying to find the words for what I need to say here today. And while I hate to start everyone’s week off with such a downer, unfortunately these words here need to be written and they need… Read more
Here we are again, another year, another birthday and sometimes when I look at the calendar I can’t believe how fast the time goes by and how another year has come and passed. I turn 28 today, a birthday that seems to have snuck up on me after a hectic… Read more
While I don’t usually post on Saturdays, today happens to be a special one, marking 9 years that Nick and I have been together. I love celebrating our “together anniversary” since we were together for so long before we got married, I always feel like those years are important too… Read more