Category: Life Updates
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Porto, Portugal // Why a melancholy February?
I was just at the beach here in Miami, listening to someone bemoan their recent assent to middle management. Anyone that has worked in corporate will tell you that it is difficult to be a first time manager, and even more difficult to work for one. She was complaining that her direct reports, mostly Gen…
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Miami, FL // Why do I even want community anyway?
It didn’t feel like it at the time, but after moving to Miami I can confidently say that Atlanta was a soft landing to life in the south. The two cities are wildly different from each other, but both provide a sense of living in a “bubble.” They are both far more liberal and diverse…
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Why relive this traumatic injury?
I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed…
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Why do I read tarot?
As with so many things I have learned throughout my lifetime, it was my sister who first taught me about tarot reading. Ever since I can remember, my sister would do something and I would watch silently. Eventually, I would grow bold enough to copy her. My love of reading books, and my fearlessness of…
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All over the place // Why a retrospective of 2022?
It’s hard for me to put into words what this year has meant to me. When I was a teenager and having a particularly difficult time just starting out on my own, a very kind and wise friend told me something that has always stuck with me. She said, As a kid, your life is…
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Atlanta, GA // Why have I been gone?
Hello, and thank you for reading! After a long and unplanned hiatus, I am excited to be dedicating time to the project again. This blog was not easy to come back to. It meant acknowledging that I had given up on it, when I never meant to stop writing. I actually wrote the title for…
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Why Atlanta?
January is supposed to be the month of defining your priorities. Making goals and actually completing steps to achieve them. Doing more of what matters. Getting things done. Side #hustling harder than ever before. Creating and moving. So why haven’t I been writing? Because I have been moving back to the US. It took me…
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Why am I grateful?
I found a sticky note when I was moving out of my house at the end of last year. It said: Lose 10 pounds Move to Europe Start teaching dance classes regularly Cultivate gratitude These were all resolutions I had written down last year. Resolutions I have achieved exactly none of. And that’s when I…
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Why am I doing this?
Frustrated and lacking direction with my job and life I decided to quit more or less everything and move to Mexico City in August of 2016. The plan was to teach high school while getting a masters in education despite having no experience or qualifications. Nothing went according to this well thought out plan and I ended up…