Category: Personal
America Remembers
“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.” – President George…
Barbados: Good-Bye
I’ve started to write this post probably a hundred times since the mid-May phone conversation when my Dad, an American ex-pat living & working in Barbados for the past four years, told me he was moving back to the States. It seems like only yesterday that, in a similar phone conversation, he was asking me…
My 7 Links: A Look Back at the Last Five Months
Tripbase recently started a new project meant to connect travel bloggers around the world & share their awesome content. I was nominated to participate by my awesome fellow travel writer Matt, editor of Landlopers, & I have to say it was fun to look back over all my posts from the last five months. At…
Narrative, Local Beer & Hockey: What I Learned at TBEX
This past weekend, I flew out to the west coast to attend the Travel Blog Exchange (aka TBEX) conference – a full two days of workshops, lectures, & networking with all my colleagues in the travel blogging world. Since I work in PR in my “real job,” I’ve attended a lot of conferences, but this…
Memorial Day
Today in the United States is Memorial Day, a day that we pause to remember the sacrifices of all the men & women who serve in our armed forces, especially those who have given their lives for our freedom. For most Americans, it’s the unofficial start of summer, a day to have a picnic &…
