Flickering
The Library A young man drags his forty-five-pound black, hard-shelled suitcase over crooked stairs, cement, and dirt alike until he...
Oh, the Places You'll Go
I am still at a loss for words with regards to everything that has happened this past year. So instead of trying to summarize everything...
المغرب - ١
I. "Ending one chapter in our lives, beginning another" – the conventional phrasing used during life-altering events, equating the span...
The Post-Travel Depression Epidemic
Like most endings, my last days were not as glorious as I would have wanted them to be. For some reason, my energy was starting to run...
The Final Countdown
After the last person in our group of eight successfully zip lined to the other end, we asked the workers what to do next. They all just...
Ke Garne
I hate pictures. I hate videos. I hate our 21st century tendencies to want to record every little detail of our lives - to document for...
Dal Bhat Power, 24-hours
02:00 - I wake to the sound of mosquitoes relentlessly buzzing around my ear. After slapping my face several times and seeking refuge...
A Second Place of Belonging
Image The damp, cool ground that I sit on slants forward ever so slightly - not enough to fall off, but enough to make me lean back and...
Slow and Steady Wins
After sitting through a 2 hour delay at JFK and straining to maintain my sanity while listening to my plane neighbor praise herself in...
Twenty Years and Counting
One of the most frustrating things about being young is that the future is this dark abyss of mystery. There is more unknown in the...