A wellness retreat was not originally part of my birthday plans. It was a milestone birthday and at first I thought I should celebrate it by doing something big and completely unfamiliar. I imagined myself boarding a plane alone, flying somewhere distant, and proving myself that I was finally ready
Category: places
Singapore only existed on my screen. I work for Singaporean clients and so it is constantly in the articles I write, in the photos I scroll past, and even sometimes, in other people’s memories. While it occurred to me to visit the place one day, someday, horrors of immigration failures
I didn’t realize how much I needed to leave until I started packing for the mountains. Again. Neil recommended Camp Awol when we were still deciding where to go, two weeks before the set date. After that steak and Sierra Madre view, we thought it was a good idea to
There’s something deeply humbling about standing in front of the mountains and realizing that none of it was made for me. Yet all of it was there for me. Seeing the Sierra Madre stretch endlessly in front of me felt so unreal. Because there she is, Mother Earth, in