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Hello, friends! As most of you know, I’m home, and (for the most part) loving itttt. Do I have moments where I have severe nostalgia for sternly telling one of my favorite students to stop standing on his chair, for eating an entire Las Gringas pizza in one sitting, givingContinue Reading

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Hi everyone! Laura and I just parted ways and as per usual I’m behind on my actual blog updates. To rewind for a sec: We both finished our jobs volunteering as English teachers with HOOP at the end of September, and traveled around Peru together for the month of October.Continue Reading

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#metoo   I’ve been debating all day whether or not to share; as usual the entire Internet has weighed in and been very polarized on the issue at hand: Is the #metoo empowering or not?   I’ve chosen to use it to empower myself, and I have nothing but loveContinue Reading

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I’m irrevocably different than who I was four months ago. Sharper. More assertive. More selfish. More empathetic. Less willing to share myself, but more giving of myself. More okay with being a paradox, with being a crescendo of internal conflict that ebbs and flows and directly correlates with my need to write.Continue Reading

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“Why do we have these places, these things, that settle into the folds of our minds like a new idea and eventually flatten out into its recesses, never forgotten but not prioritized?”Continue Reading