Category: Travel
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Israel, Pt. 1
When I left Israel in April, everyone told me I would be processing it for months, even years. I didn’t want to believe them. I wanted it to be a nice tidy package by the end of summer: here’s what I learned, here’s how I grew, my three-point essay, my expert reflections on the conflict.…
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Patchwork Heart
NJ > upstate NY > IN > northern VA > Deutschland > northern VA > KS > Deutschland > northern VA > … I don’t know if you can see it, but my collarbones extend for miles, wide as the prairie, basking beneath the blue sky of my heart. And my eyes, of course, are…
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Going on an Adventure: Scotland, Pt. 2
You may remember that last summer my family and I took a trip to Scotland. We enjoyed it so much that we decided to return there this summer as our last European hurrah before moving back to the States. Our first visit to Scotland, we hiked around bonnie Loch Lomond for a few days but…
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Paris: Poems & Pictures
(Can we all just pause for a moment and bask in the alliterative glory of that title? Okay, thanks.) So two weeks ago we visited Paris. It was entirely spontaneous, and I’m still kind of reeling from the fact that it actually happened. I was going to do a big picture & general itinerary post…
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Going on an Adventure: London
Last week my family and I went to London, and I had so much fun compiling pictures of our trips to Keukenhof and Scotland that I thought I’d do the same thing this time. But wait. Let me backtrack and repeat that first statement: I got to visit London. I don’t know, that just feels…
A Glimpse of Starlight 