Making Mooncakes on the Grand Canal

Visiting Tangqi for Mid-Autumn Festival

Handy tips for summer in Sweden

You know what they say about summer in Scandinavia: it's the best day if the year!

Thailand: TakeMeTour and the Instagrammer’s Dream

Living out my dreams of social media stardom in Thailand.

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.

Temples and Tourists

I always saw pictures of Westerners in Thailand at temples with their hands folded--what to me seemed like a hokey pose that didn't seem particularly respectful. That is, until I found myself there getting suckered into the very same things.

How stirringly beautiful the images in my head

If you only knew how entrancing, how stirringly beautiful the images in my head are, the ones I am unable to express.

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.

Those still living should bring umbrellas

Last October, a journalist in Malta was killed by car bomb. Last December, I went to Malta and took too many selfies. Oh, and did you hear about this election?

A Hong Kong second

"A New York minute is a Hong Kong second." -someone who hasn't been to Hong Kong since the late 80s, I guess.

Unfortunately I didn’t go to Waffle House: Eating well in Atlanta

It's not quite the Atlanta out of Jermaine Dupri's universe, but it's pretty damn delicious.