'Why walls great til the gotta be great?' and other stupid puns I thought up when captioning my Instagram pictures from the Great Wall.
Return Ticket
Going back to a book is like returning to the cities we believe to be our own, but which, in reality, we've forgotten and been forgotten by.
Making Mooncakes on the Grand Canal
Visiting Tangqi for Mid-Autumn Festival
Who is that girl I see (living in Hangzhou for a year)?
I am forever halfway somewhere, not quite settled and not sure if I even want to stay.
That which we call a mountain by any other word would be just as steep
Some lessons on enjoying nature in China
By night in China
It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground.
Everywhere I went in 2018
This year has been quite a whirlwind, honestly. I went to three different continents! (For some that's nothing, but it's a lot for me!) I do sort of wish I had spent more time exploring Spain, because I was living there and there are sooo many "must-sees" that I never went to. I also wish …
Trying not to be That Foreigner in China
You know THAT foreigner. The one you don't want to be, right? Getting real honest with myself about who I want to be versus who I am.
Contrasting in Beijing
Five thousand years of history sitting right next to each other.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall
I distinctly remember connecting to this line in The Great Gatsby, but it's really just an excuse for the basic af fall photos. Don't worry, no pumpkin spice lattes.